Survey shows one in every three high school students visits beer gardens

[rooster59]

Survey shows one in every three high school students visits beer gardens

 

 

As beer brewers are making good business selling beer at beer gardens in the capital and tourist towns in the provinces during the New Year festive season, the Alcohol Control Committee has voiced concern over high number of teenagers visiting beer gardens.

 

The committee’s call for action came after the latest survey showed one out of every three high school students used to visit and drink beer at beer gardens although the law prohibit selling of alcohol beverages to youth under 18 years old.

 

According to the Thai Health Promotion Foundation-commissioned survey which was released on Thursday (Dec 28), one out of every high school students, or 34% of all high school students, had at least visited a beer garden once.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/survey-shows-one-every-three-high-school-students-visits-beer-gardens/

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-12-30

[Bluespunk]

1 minute ago, rooster59 said:

Survey shows one in every three high school students visits beer gardens

Is that all...just about everyone I went to school with visited pubs.

 

We’d have been all over beer gardens. 

[jaywalker]

Just wait for it. Their solution will be to ban beer gardens.

[ezzra]

Where do you want them to go? libraries and museums? no beer there,

and the  women in these places don't hold a candle to the beer girls right?...

as for the under age, yeah right, like they goona pay attention to what the

laws says when half the fun is breaking the law.... 

[Oziex1]

Looks like a relaxing fun place to be.

I say why not.

[leeneeds]

Growing up has its life pleasures to be experienced

 

[Rhys]

Get out the sticks...

[steven100]

I love seeing those students.

[iainiain101]

I thought the age was 20 in Thailand?

 

[wgdanson]

2 hours ago, jaywalker said:

Just wait for it. Their solution will be to ban beer gardens.

Or ban high schools. 

[Peterw42]

Yes, the sky is blue, the sun will rise tomorrow and teenagers will sneak into pubs

[djayz]

Usually, the more you prohibit something, the more people want to try it. 

Teach teenagers to control their drinking, it's something to be consumed responsibly.  Don't let the drink control YOU. 

[YetAnother]

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

one out of every high school students, or 34% of all high school students, had at least visited a beer garden once.

potentially bad news for us beer drinkers;

the ultra conservative 'government' we now endure might knee-jerk this  one into some inane restrictions 

[klauskunkel]

"Survey shows one in every three high school students visits beer gardens"

... and the other two visit massage parlors.

[jaywalker]

4 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

"Survey shows one in every three high school students visits beer gardens"

... and the other two visit massage parlors.

...and have their beer there. 

[BuaBS]

Where do they find the money for beer ?

[anon789561]

4 hours ago, jaywalker said:

Just wait for it. Their solution will be to ban beer gardens.

i thought they were illegal, not that it matters here 555 

 

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2017/12/18/beer-gardens-declared-illegal/

[RichardColeman]

I'm guessing the other 66% are on beach road.

[ratcatcher]

5 hours ago, jaywalker said:

Just wait for it. Their solution will be to ban beer gardens.

Not a chance.

[NCC1701A]

Last night at 00:15 many bars in the Binabaht area were closed down by masked police in Hua Hin. Made for a lot of pissed off tourists. All the bars that Thais go to stayed open in other areas. 

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

Illegal? Pfft! There won't be any more if they organize them for late December in a sodding rain with the poor illegal beer pretties shivering in wool sweaters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[farcanell]

12 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Survey shows one in every three high school students visits beer gardens

????.  

 

Surveys show beer gardens sell alcohol to 1/3 of all high school students

 

 ????

 

i see.

[tso310]

9 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

"Survey shows one in every three high school students visits beer gardens"

... and the other two visit massage parlors.

I wish I could have visited massage parlors when I was a teenager. 

[Bill Miller]

Just wondering what place "beer gardens" have under the law?
The age for "public consumption" is 20, but there is no legal limit for private drinking in private places. In other words teens can legally get schnockered at home.
Perhaps a "beer garden" is a loophole under those considerations.?
I know the legal status of "beer gardens" is not entirely certain since what, 2015?

 

 

[Bill Miller]

When in high school we used to run to New York state where the drinking age was 18 to buy beer. At 16 I looked older than 18, so had no trouble at all.
A number of nations establish the legal age as 16. A few have no restriction. Many, like Thailand, have no restriction on "private", i.e. at home, consumption.
Amusingly the UK has a minimum age of five for in home consumption; "It'll stunt yer growth!"

[Ossy]

So, it's illegal for under 18's to drink alcohol in Thailand. It's the same in the UK but the UK govt came up with a pretty simple and extremely effective method of enforcing the law: prove your age by showing I/D card, if asked. It's the same in most other developed countries . . . why does school-kids drinking beer need to be a problem, here, in the back-woods of Thailand? Well, you'd think it was the back-woods, so far is Thailand behind most of the rest of the world and the worrying thing, for me, is that very few people seem to give a shit. As long as there's food going in the in-door every day, that's all they want or expect from the PTB.

 

Why is the Thai govt so slow to do pretty well anything and everything . . . from abysmal road-safety to non-existent alcohol policing; from abysmal education standards to abysmal immigration control at airports . . . everything in Thailand just seems to be too much trouble.

[overherebc]

On 30/12/2017 at 2:05 AM, klauskunkel said:

"Survey shows one in every three high school students visits beer gardens"

... and the other two visit massage parlors.

Tried a beer and massage. Fine until the end then I spilled most of it.

[greenchair]

Mathayom 6 students are 18 to 19 years old. 

Sounds normal to me. 

[Ossy]

On ‎30‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 8:40 AM, YetAnother said:

potentially bad news for us beer drinkers;

the ultra conservative 'government' we now endure might knee-jerk this  one into some inane restrictions 

What . . . like possessing a bottle opener?

[MyFriend You]

I have the solution:

• Beer Gardens should be off limits to all Thai Police, no chance of tea money scams.
• All motorcycles and cars have to be parked in the same place. 
• All patrons have to be breathalyzed before  allowing to leave the premisis with their car or motorcycle.

This was the kids have their fun, will most certainly be drunk, but can't drive home  -  Only sober designated drivers can drive the cars or Motorcycles

 

Yeah I know, Nevah Hoppen Here!!  Their answer is to propose to Ban Beer Gardens.think I read that a couple weeks ago.