Pattaya Beach anti-smoking rally set for March 6

PATTAYA:--Pattaya Beach will see its first anti-smoking rally March 6 as city hall tries to implement a beach smoking ban citywide.

 

Deputy Mayor Vichien Pongpanit chaired a Feb. 23 meeting on the first smoking ban public relations event outside Dongtan Beach. He estimated 85 percent of people visiting Dongtan now understand and follow the smoking prohibition and predicted that number will reach 100 percent within a month.

 

The challenge now is to bring the ban on smoking to Pattaya and Naklua beaches. The first step was to educate beach chair vendors, who signed on to the effort by collecting 110,000 cigarette butts.

 

The butts were given to the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources for analysis.

 

The March 6 event will include an exhibition on the health dangers of cigarettes and the negative effects of throwing butts on the beach.

 

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I have seen a massage lady with a yellow jacket collecting cigarette butts at Pattaya beach. Was she digging in the sand? No, she was collecting them from the dozens of ashtrays now set up in the smoking areas on Beach Road.

This is really a non-story now. The beach concession holders are enforcing the smoking ban because City Hall has told them they will be fined 2000 Baht as well as any smokers being fined.

1 hour ago, Rimmer said:

an exhibition on the health dangers of cigarettes

Smoking dangerous to health??? Get away

Hopefully ban those selfish farangs from smoking in restaurants when your dining with your kids while they are at it !

Analysis?

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These morons who smoke in restaurants should be kicked out and fined. How rude. If you smoke stop. And if you do smoke, then do it outside of eating establishments and away from children and the elderly. Period.

Which one was head butt counter ? I demand a recount there only looks 109,990 in the jars.

What Pattaya really needs is a "Stop Foreigners, Under Strange Circumstances, Falling from Balconies" rally. Imagine, what that would do for the positive image of Pattaya! No-smoking ban/rally - who cares?

6 hours ago, Rimmer said:

The butts were given to the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources for analysis.

Analysis .! What can you tell from a bit of smoked out filter .? .. We has just come back from Patt' beach having spent most of the day there and we didn't detect any toking by way of the smell of smoke carried on the breeze .. We did observe those who wanted a chuff retreat to the promenade bit but they were only a few .. 

Yawn, wake me up when the anti-price gouging go-go bar rally commences.

5 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Hopefully ban those selfish farangs from smoking in restaurants when your dining with your kids while they are at it !

If it's allowed to smoke i will, if i have to go to a designated smoking-area i'll do that.

 

Maybe they should make restaurants for smokers and separate ones for non-smokers? Same for kids who cry all the time.

Start collecting plastic.

4 hours ago, Enigmatist said:

Analysis?

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X  -  11000 

Edited March 2, 20188 yr by cookieqw

thats one use for plastic bottles i hadnt thought of. 

3 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Which one was head butt counter ? I demand a recount there only looks 109,990 in the jars.

nearest to the exact amount gets a free lighter 

37 minutes ago, Thian said:

If it's allowed to smoke i will, if i have to go to a designated smoking-area i'll do that.

 

Maybe they should make restaurants for smokers and separate ones for non-smokers? Same for kids who cry all the time.

they have in the UK, all smokers are in the garden so no fun out there for non smokers anymore, dont get me started on the fact they actually stink of cigarettes

1 hour ago, Justgrazing said:

Analysis .! What can you tell from a bit of smoked out filter .? .. We has just come back from Patt' beach having spent most of the day there and we didn't detect any toking by way of the smell of smoke carried on the breeze .. We did observe those who wanted a chuff retreat to the promenade bit but they were only a few .. 

not banned on Patt beach yet 

2 minutes ago, cookieqw said:

not banned on Patt beach yet 

It is from Klang to Dusit end. Started this Monday.

9 hours ago, likeke said:

These morons who smoke in restaurants should be kicked out and fined. How rude. If you smoke stop. And if you do smoke, then do it outside of eating establishments and away from children and the elderly. Period.

There are loads of non smoking restaurants  ..... why not use them ?  ..... I don't like kids running around in restaurants or crying .... so I don't use them .....

10 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Hopefully ban those selfish farangs from smoking in restaurants when your dining with your kids while they are at it !

Nothing selfish about it if it's allowed  .... I don't like breathing in car and bike fumes ... but I don't imagine that's going to stop people using them  ... 

Yessss and love it when the clueless polluters say ' bye bye thailand will holiday elsewhere " like that's a bad thing [emoji16]

110,000 butts from the beach....wow!   That must have been a massive effort sorting that many butts from all the plastic bags, bottles, condoms, syringes, fishing gear, disposable nappies and various other flotsam and jetsam that washes up on those beaches daily.

Funny you can always pick (hear) the ex-smokers! 

22 hours ago, cookieqw said:

they have in the UK, all smokers are in the garden so no fun out there for non smokers anymore, dont get me started on the fact they actually stink of cigarettes

Smokers....where do I start....oh better not 

10 hours ago, InMyShadow said:

Yessss and love it when the clueless polluters say ' bye bye thailand will holiday elsewhere " like that's a bad thing

You mean the biggest polluters .... bikes and cars ?

 

10 hours ago, Pierre57 said:

You mean the biggest polluters .... bikes and cars ?

 

huh?  how you connect those 2 ???