Thailand makes HUGE changes to its laws on smoking in public

[Geordieabroad]

Yaaawwwnnn. For god sake give it a rest, some people smoke and others don't. Some people drink and others don't. Keep your noses out of others. Before you reply, stop driving your cars, flying, sailing etc

[sanemax]

11 hours ago, Nielsk said:

I do say You are generalizing.  Absolutely not my experience. Who do You think You are. Smoking outside does not affect You.  Seems like You deliberately put the nose into the smoke. Just stop that and get on with your miserable life  !

It does effect me when they stand right outside the door and the wind is blowing inwards

[scorecard]

6 hours ago, sanemax said:

It does effect me when they stand right outside the door and the wind is blowing inwards

Or a few years back in Hanoi Vietnam one popular restaurant was allowing customers to smoke inside the venue as long as it wasn't more than 1 metre inside the door.

 

I went there with my 20 MBA students who were unaware the venue had changed from absolute no smoking inside to the arrangement above.

 

Every time the door opened the gush of incoming air spread the smoke through the whole place. Just awful.

 

Before we ordered one of the students suggested we leave, plenty more good restaurants.

 

We left with the owner / manager standing there lost for words.  

 

[dcnx]

On 11/19/2018 at 10:03 AM, Shiver said:

Fair comment, but what about city smog?  I'd rather choke down several packs of cigarettes than ride my push bike behind the trucks and busses taking just one breath until I can get past them.

So don’t ride behind the trucks. 

 

Non-smokers don’t have that luxury.

[dcnx]

21 hours ago, Nielsk said:

I do say You are generalizing.  Absolutely not my experience. Who do You think You are. Smoking outside does not affect You.  Seems like You deliberately put the nose into the smoke. Just stop that and get on with your miserable life  !

You smokers are dense. It absolutely does. We smell it everywhere outside. You smell of stench so bad and your sense of smell is ruined so you haven’t a clue how bad you stink and how far your stench travels.

 

Cancer will sort most of you out. 

[Sonhia]

I'm all for a better inviroment, but more attention should be focused on other matters.

 

I doubt this attempt will work.

 

Looking around me sums up how, expensive, corrupt, rude, filthy, dirty, unhygyinic, uncaring, unsafe, lawless and sooooooooo on it really is here, but it could all change only if the mind set attitudes would change, but that won't happen.

 

I'm starting to feel Thailand's bubble is deflating and that the grass is greener elsewhere. The appeal for me to reside within Thailand has become less and less everyday.

 

 

 

[metisdead]

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[gamb00ler]

On 11/6/2018 at 11:35 AM, swissie said:

Fashions change. At some time it was fashionable to burn christians at the stakes. Then it was the "non-believers" turn. Then the witches. Then the Jews. Then the Gays. Then folks wearing long hair and playing rock n'roll. Today it's the smokers that need to be nailed to the cross.

This opinion supported mainly by folks that drive an SUV, guzzling 20 litres per 100 and standing on a street corner in BKK inhaling the fresh air.
Be on your guard: Vegans will be next. Them eating food that deprives them of essential nutrients, making for expensive hospital bills later on, putting them in the same boat as smokers.
To be politically correct means to be anti-tobacco these days.

I just would want to see the faces of those politically-correct people, if upon entering the "pearly-gates", the first thing they would be offered, is a Cuban-Cigar!
- How simple would it be if there were Pub's and other places for smokers or non smokers. End of discussion. Everybody happy!
But it's not about that. And it's not a health issue. Inhaling "second-hand-smoke" is so diluted, that it has about the same effect as Homeophathic Medicine. = NONE! It's about the rightous majority wanting to impose their rightiouseness upon a minority. What else is new on this globe?

 
BTW: In the 50ties and 60ties, a non smoker was considered as politically "incorrect". Remember?
Fashions change. Let's be careful what we wish for. Todays political correctness may come back and bite some of us in the rear....

You seem to give equal weight to biased opinions and to opinions based on research and facts.  That's a personal choice.

 

I would also suggest you familiarize yourself with the true meaning of "political correctness" instead of the definition implied by the conspiracy theorists.

 

To be considered "fair and balanced" I must state that your last point is something that we all should take to heart.

[JimmyJ]

On 11/18/2018 at 7:03 PM, Shiver said:

Fair comment, but what about city smog?  I'd rather choke down several packs of cigarettes than ride my push bike behind the trucks and busses taking just one breath until I can get past them.

 

So what?

[tifino]

chewing tobacco and betelnut... back to the old ways!

[Shiver]

On 12/13/2018 at 9:30 AM, JimmyJ said:

 

So what?

So what about city smog in comparison.  Why is that under the radar?

If you ask me nicely I'll not only ask the questions, but also make up some answers so you don't have to bother yourself reading it.

 

[Sikpuppy23]

People are still smoking at the airport smoking rooms today and outside don't think the law want to enforce it 

[Joeythai]

So what, another law that's not enforced, I see smokers on the beach still every day

[Joeythai]

Will not be enforced anyway so what?

[Bday Prang]

On 12/13/2018 at 5:17 AM, dcnx said:

You smokers are dense. It absolutely does. We smell it everywhere outside. You smell of stench so bad and your sense of smell is ruined so you haven’t a clue how bad you stink and how far your stench travels.

 

Cancer will sort most of you out. 

Cancer will sort most people out Wether they smoke or not

[ramr]

I'm pretty sure this will be evenly enforced between Thai and farang offenders.  ????

 

Seriously, fellow Westerners, watch your back.  Another cash cow is born.   ????