Smokers beware: You'll be fined 5,000 baht if caught lighting up in bus stations and markets nationwide

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Smokers beware: You'll be fined 5,000 baht if caught lighting up in bus stations and markets nationwide

 

Picture: INN

 

Smokers have been warned about lighting up in public places as Covid-19 authorities crack down on them amid the easing of coronavirus regulations.

 

The Thai authorities are targeting bus stations and markets for action. 

 

INN reported that smokers would obviously not be wearing masks and would represent a chance of spreading the virus now that many people are returning to bus stations and markets.

 

Dr Chaiyanan Sitthibut and his team along with anti alcohol groups were at Mo Chit 2 bus station in Bangkok yesterday where 11 people were fined.

 

Smokers face up to 5,000 baht in fines with a 50,000 baht fine for organisations that allow smoking on their premises. 

 

Thaivisa notes that smoking in such places has been banned for years but is often not enforced. The emergence from the lockdown looks set to change that as less tolerance is shown to smokers.

 

Source: INN

 

 

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[EricTh]

Is interprovincial travel allowed yet?

[smedly]

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

Dr Chaiyanan Sitthibut and his team along with anti alcohol

yes ban it all (deleted) idiots

 

now waiting for the TVF anti smoking anti alcohol lobby to fill this thread with self righteous (deleted)

[bkk6060]

I'm here.

 

Smoking:  Probably the most disgusting legal addiction in the world. 

Tobacco kills an estimated 8 million people in the world each year and puts a tremendous drain on our health care systems.

It should be banned permanently worldwide for the betterment of the health of our society.

Edited May 25, 2020 by bkk6060

[redwood1]

I guess they did not do any research......Smoking INSIDE the bus station has already been banned for a long time.......Everyone goes out to the far edges of the parking lot to smoke......I dont see this changing at all.........99% of the smokers are employees and bus drivers who will not be paying Jack.........So they are really going to have to work hard to snag a few farang honeypots to milk...lol

[pineapple01]

2 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

I'm here.

 

Smoking:  Probably the most disgusting legal addiction in the world. 

Tobacco kills an estimated 8 million people in the world each year and puts a tremendous drain on our health care systems.

It should be banned permanently worldwide for the betterment of the health of our society.

Yes, i remember Thaksin telling us that. Next day he was in the BKK Manderin Bar choking everyone with his Pipe Smoke.

[redwood1]

12 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

I'm here.

 

Smoking:  Probably the most disgusting legal addiction in the world. 

Tobacco kills an estimated 8 million people in the world each year and puts a tremendous drain on our health care systems.

It should be banned permanently worldwide for the betterment of the health of our society.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 25, 2020 by redwood1

[luckyluke]

3 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

 

 

 

 

Indeed smoking was good, at a time.

[EricTh]

17 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

I'm here.

 

Smoking:  Probably the most disgusting legal addiction in the world. 

Tobacco kills an estimated 8 million people in the world each year and puts a tremendous drain on our health care systems.

It should be banned permanently worldwide for the betterment of the health of our society.

 

I will probably be criticised for saying this by some smokers here but smoking helps to spread the virus faster as the smoke carries it away.

 

The truth is that I can smell cigar smoke 2 to 3 meters away. That's how far it can travel.

Edited May 25, 2020 by EricTh

[hackjam]

Hopefully, with deportation to follow for non Thais.

Should be banned worldwide.

[toofarnorth]

I thought I read the other day that c19 doesn't like smoke. Or was it smokers are safer from C19 ?

[bluesofa]

35 minutes ago, EricTh said:

I will probably be criticised for saying this by some smokers here but smoking helps to spread the virus faster as the smoke carries it away.

The truth is that I can smell cigar smoke 2 to 3 meters away. That's how far it can travel.

I hadn't realised that smoke helps to transmit Covid?

I was just about to ask, as I couldn't reconcile the two - even as a non-smoker.

[Justgrazing]

And if you smoke weed C V's got no chance .. It'll be too whacked to be bothered leaving ..

There does appear to evidence that some people who smoke aren't catching it .. but the jeopardy is that it is much worse for a chuffer if they do fall to it ..

[drbeach]

2 hours ago, EricTh said:

Is interprovincial travel allowed yet?

Yes, since May 18 to select destinations. By private car or motorcycle, never been officially banned, but some provinces/regions have had restrictions in place.

[EricTh]

2 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I hadn't realised that smoke helps to transmit Covid?

I was just about to ask, as I couldn't reconcile the two - even as a non-smoker.

If Covid can travel via the droplets of water when someone sneeze or cough, do you think that virus won't stick onto smoke particles as well?

[bluesofa]

7 minutes ago, EricTh said:

2 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I hadn't realised that smoke helps to transmit Covid?

I was just about to ask, as I couldn't reconcile the two - even as a non-smoker.

If Covid can travel via the droplets of water when someone sneeze or cough, do you think that virus won't stick onto smoke particles as well?

I have absolutely no idea if Covid can stick to smoke the same as droplets of water, not being up on this subject. Hence my question.

[EricTh]

8 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

I have absolutely no idea if Covid can stick to smoke the same as droplets of water, not being up on this subject. Hence my question.

Let me quote from this website.

 

https://www.webmd.com/lung/covid-19-smoking-vaping#2

 

Can Secondhand Smoke Spread the Coronavirus to Others?

Early studies have found that the coronavirus can attach to particles in secondhand smoke and secondhand aerosols from e-cigarettes. This may make it spread farther in smokers’ homes. These particles with the virus can also linger in dust and on surfaces for days.

 

 

[heybuz]

43 minutes ago, EricTh said:

If Covid can travel via the droplets of water when someone sneeze or cough, do you think that virus won't stick onto smoke particles as well?

Yes

[Badboldie]

3 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I'm here.

 

Smoking:  Probably the most disgusting legal addiction in the world. 

Tobacco kills an estimated 8 million people in the world each year and puts a tremendous drain on our health care systems.

It should be banned permanently worldwide for the betterment of the health of our society.

You should get things of your chest, stop beating about the bush, and say what you really mean!

I agree with you 100%, just hope they extend it to bar and restaurants when they fully open.

[Proboscis]

What is the point of cracking down on smoking if the air is full of PM2.5 from rice field burning, land clearance and burning of garbage? Address those first.

[Bob A Kneale]

3 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Edited 3 hours ago by redwood1

That is not an advert condoning smoking, if you bothered to read what you posted you'd see that it's an article taken from a dairy industry publication (The Bullvine, in a huge banner on the left) pointing out how dangerous smoking turned out to be and how attitudes from the time apply to the dairy industry (the article header that you posted actually says "And other facts dairy breeders need to know".

http://www.thebullvine.com/genomics/smoking-is-good-for-you/

[lee b]

I thought smoking was banned in such places anyway?

[sammieuk1]

Have a vape instead ????

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, sammieuk1 said:

Have a vape instead ????

You can't do that. I remember A-Nut-In the government told us recently vaping wasn't healthy. As opposed to cigarettes.

 

[Emdog]

3 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

I thought I read the other day that c19 doesn't like smoke. Or was it smokers are safer from C19 ?

Just to stir up a hornet's nest, from French data: "It found that of those admitted to hospital, whose median age was 65, only 4.4% were regular smokers. Among those released home, with a median age of 44, 5.3% smoked." Nasty little virus can't make it through the tar. Something like undercoating a car I reckon. Here's a link to full article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/french-study-suggests-smokers-at-lower-risk-of-getting-coronavirus

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, Emdog said:

Just to stir up a hornet's nest, from French data: "It found that of those admitted to hospital, whose median age was 65, only 4.4% were regular smokers. Among those released home, with a median age of 44, 5.3% smoked." Nasty little virus can't make it through the tar. Something like undercoating a car I reckon. Here's a link to full article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/french-study-suggests-smokers-at-lower-risk-of-getting-coronavirus

Details? Don't bother me with details.

I'm off to drink a tin of Ronseal underseal - it does exactly what it says on the tin.

[berybert]

4 hours ago, hackjam said:

Hopefully, with deportation to follow for non Thais.

Should be banned worldwide.

Should people who leave home without underwear on also be deported if they are not Thai ?

 

[rasmus5150]

20 minutes ago, berybert said:

Should people who leave home without underwear on also be deported if they are not Thai ?

 

Yes, because they are clearly mentally challenged. And that's why it's still a written law ????

[lesmac]

6 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I'm here.

 

Smoking:  Probably the most disgusting legal addiction in the world. 

Tobacco kills an estimated 8 million people in the world each year and puts a tremendous drain on our health care systems.

It should be banned permanently worldwide for the betterment of the health of our society.

Whilst I agree with you as a life long smoker stopped 7 years ago and now realize how filthy and smelly it is, people have the right to choose but not do this in public

[sungod]

5 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

I thought I read the other day that c19 doesn't like smoke. Or was it smokers are safer from C19 ?

Correct, they are safer as most people dont want to go near them when tabbing up.