webfact Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 ASH Thailand stresses on smoking control measures PHUKET, 1 MAY 2018 (NNT) – ASH Thailand stressed on the importance of smoking control measures to discourage new smokers, help those who wish to quit smoking and protect non-smokers. Action on Smoking and Health Foundation (ASH Thailand) President Prakit Vathesatogkit gave a lecture on why Thailand needs to control smoking in a workshop in Phuket with regards to the Tobacco Products Control Act B.E. 2560. He said efforts to control smoking started with the introduction of the Tobacco Control Act B.E. 2509, the Non-Smokers' Health Protection Act B.E. 2535, the raise of tobacco tax, the display of warning texts on cartons, Thailand's participation in the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the new Tobacco Products Control Act B.E. 2560 which was promulgated last year. The ASH Thailand president highlighted the number of smokers in Thailand which reduced by 20 percent according to a 2014 survey. The number of smokers reduced by 40 percent in the northeastern region, by 43 percent in the northern region, by 13 percent in the southern region, by 37 percent in the central region, and by 29 percent in Bangkok. The overall number of smokers in Thailand currently accounts for 20 percent of the population. ASH Thailand is committed to further campaign for the reduction in the consumption of tobacco products in accordance with the new Tobacco Products Control Act B.E. 2560. -- nnt 2018-05-01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Danny Crane Posted May 1, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 1, 2018 And all this while the rest of the world legalises e-cigarettes. Wake up Thailand and smell the steam (vapour). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anak Nakal Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Smoking is stupid. Make not legal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davedub Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Anak Nakal said: Smoking is stupid. Make not legal! If there is a demand, there will always be a supply. Your suggestion, if enacted, would simply create a black market for unregulated tobacco where criminals would be the only people who profited. Now what *would* work in reducing harm is if vaping and other, less harmful methods of delivering nicotine were regulated, encouraged and of course taxed. Edited May 1, 2018 by Davedub formatting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaltsc Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 "ASH Thailand stressed on the importance of smoking control measures to discourage new smokers, help those who wish to quit smoking and protect non-smokers." How about increasing the fine to 5,000 THB and not be enforced, and put up twice as many signs that will be ignored? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post thhMan Posted May 1, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 1, 2018 2 hours ago, Anak Nakal said: Smoking is stupid. Make not legal! Straight out ignorance I believe being stupid should be illegal, that would be a better solution to most everything 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thhMan Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 2 hours ago, Danny Crane said: And all this while the rest of the world legalises e-cigarettes. Wake up Thailand and smell the steam (vapour). I went back on to smoking when I couldnt vape anymore... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 I don't know about the smoking but always keep a keen eye out for butts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davedub Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Another country wises up. Please Thailand, help protect our health, be the next country to do the right thing! https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/immediate-effect_court-overturns-swiss-ban-on-e-cigarettes/44082174 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon7867763 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 If they gave 1% shit about this they would legalise vaping but they don't so please move on, this is fake news. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lubfishin Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 (edited) I tried to quit smoking about 10 times unsuccessfully. After being introduced to vaping it was easiest way to quit smoking. I'm sure there is still a little bit damage but from everything I read it is a 95% reduction of all of the pollutants and chemicals that I would normally put in my lungs with regular cigarettes. Thailand please care about your population instead of your tobacco Monopoly profits Edited May 1, 2018 by lubfishin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minnehaha Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Anybody know where to buy butane can in Bangkok? Seems everybody sold out.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbastheycome Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 (edited) What should be done first is to eliminate the contaminated tobacco product from local sale. That in conjunction with the removal of food product containing well recognised carcinogens at extreme levels, removal of asbestos from construction materials, cessation in the addition of lethal carcinogenic octane boosters to petrol, enforcement of air particle pollutants from industry an construction, etc etec etc ! " Clean " tobacco has less social populace damage impact than any of the others. Vaping is a vast improvement . I would be the last to defend or recommend the inhalation of tobacco smoke. But I know the mis/dis information relative to reality is disproportionate when compared to the much greater damage being done via approved environmental/ food product. So why so much international pointing? And for the sanctimonious ex smokers.....still not easy huh ? lol. So get the head out of .....! Edited May 1, 2018 by Dumbastheycome Defensive anticipation. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowhereman Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Where do they get this statistics. On my latest travel up north in the mountains everything on two feet is smoking cheap Burmese tobacco rolled in banana leaves. ASH is abbreviation for a..holes. Introduce vaping to the nation and tell them that this is the latest achievement of modern technology that will save millions of lives and precious Thai Bahts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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