Smokers beware! Crackdown means lighting up in public could get you a 5,000 baht fine

[Malawi]

Probably the only decent thing the junta have ever done.

Great news.

[mr mr]

anyone got an extra cigarette ? 

[Eindhoven]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Total BS. No science whatsoever. Second hand air? Total nonsense. The unfounded hysteria continues, from an administration so devoid of talent, it boggles the mind. I am not fond of tobacco. Personally, it has taken out countless people that I loved, and really miss. And I find the smell of smoke to be foul.

 

But, at the same time, I am not fond of big brother, and over reaching laws. If a person cannot smoke outside, where can they smoke? Is it reasonable to tell someone they can only smoke in their homes? 

 

Yes.

Smokers should not inconvenience non-smokers. On the street nor anywhere else.

If the idiots want to deliberately put poisonous smoke in their lungs, let them do it far away from those who don't.

So yes, it is reasonable. It also stops them being punched in the face or thrown off a baht bus when they refuse to put their cigarette out or get off the bus....

Yes, there were idiots who thought it was their right to be able to smoke on the songthaew.

As you know from the COVID-19 occurrence, people cannot be relied upon to do the right thing.

This way, there is no argument. Bravo! Excellent!

 

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[FritsSikkink]

1 hour ago, smedly said:

basically no

 

they are looking for more ways to gouge money from dirty farangs

More Thais smoke than foreigners, so a dumb answer

[holy cow cm]

8 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

The way I understand it, is a public building is none smoking you have to move more than 5 meters away to smoke thats the rule where our condo is

Yes that is the formality for how they imposed it. But this also carries in to our personal private homes entrance as I understand it being the last for upping the ante. They are twisting this and anything any way and all ways to their fatheaded liking. Big brother is a fat headed club of always trying to one up the other fathead thinking that it is their duty to impose restrictions and controls on the minions. When will enough be enough and the peasants will stand up once and for all against them? I don't actually like the smell of tobacco, but I do respect the right to smoke.

[bodga]

Recycled  news, on TV  months  ago

[hackjam]

Hopefully, as it impacts on others.

[hackjam]

10 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

For the most part smokers here are considerate of the non smokers.

You are having a laugh

[Phil McCaverty]

4 minutes ago, hackjam said:

You are having a laugh

No he's not, that's my experience (and practice) too. Have a fag and chill out.

[bendejo]

Not often that you come across a minibus driver who does not smoke.  Wonder how those guys will be handled.

 

 

[RichardColeman]

They should ban smoking completely - I'm sick of getting on a motorbike taxi, where the guys juggling his fag, his phone and his red bull whist taking me home 

[Pilotman]

1 minute ago, RichardColeman said:

They should ban smoking completely - I'm sick of getting on a motorbike taxi, where the guys juggling his fag, his phone and his red bull whist taking me home 

Then why use them?  Too risky mate, I would rather walk.  

[holy cow cm]

1 minute ago, RichardColeman said:

They should ban smoking completely - I'm sick of getting on a motorbike taxi, where the guys juggling his fag, his phone and his red bull whist taking me home 

Then ban everything else such as alcohol, eating with your mouth open, not taking a shower, obesity looking ugly, speaking English and public forums etc. You have the right to ask the motorcycle guy to put his cigarette out while he takes you. Honestly, I have never had a motorcycle taxi or tuk tuk in BKK keep on smoking his cig while riding me. 

[Metropolitian]

When the borders opens and the Chinese's come visiting Thailand.

They are pretty known as heavy smokers.

Will the crackdown stand?

[CNXexpat]

3 hours ago, xxeo said:

What does that mean? Smoking is illegal in Thailand in all public areas, on the street etc.?

It´s not illegal - but you have to wear a mask if you are smoking in public ????

[Cats4ever]

The generals are wowsers (look it up if you have to).  I smoke and try to be considerate. Some crypto fascist non smokers travel a considerable distance to complain. I also have not dropped butts for 30 years (getting rid of unfiltered cigarettes was a really good idea???). The increase in Buddha days and the enforcement makes me consider the worth of a trip to a land I have visited many times since the gob smacking first visit in 1972.

 

[smedly]

1 hour ago, FritsSikkink said:

More Thais smoke than foreigners, so a dumb answer

dumb is when the obvious is explained and you still don't get it

 

Thais cannot afford these fines - simple

[drbeach]

3 hours ago, Dumbastheycome said:

It is  news to me that only dirty farangs smoke !

So no fortune to be made there because I think it fairly safe to say the majority of  farang are not dirty.

Frenchmen and Russians smoke, but Aussies and Americans generally don't. Also, where are all these "dirty farang" the other guy mentioned, when no farang aside from the odd diplomat or exempt traveler, has been permitted entry since early April?

[Traubert]

14 minutes ago, drbeach said:

Frenchmen and Russians smoke, but Aussies and Americans generally don't. Also, where are all these "dirty farang" the other guy mentioned, when no farang aside from the odd diplomat or exempt traveler, has been permitted entry since early April?

It's just a buzz phrase for the thin skinned paranoiacs.

[Proboscis]

4 hours ago, Pilotman said:

good, about time too. 

First they come for the outside smokers, then they come for the outside drinkers, then they come for all the other types of "undesirables" - and what will you do when they come for you and no one is available to speak up for you?

 

Incidentally, I am a non-smoker for 30 years. But not even I could discern the smoke coming from a cigarette from that coming from all the other sources.

 

There is absolutely no evidence that Covid-19 is enhanced in its infectivity by smoking. If anything, the nicotine in tobacco smoke will kill the virus!

[Destiny1990]

Smoking bad for virus so 5000 bht fine. How about inhaling polluted burned air from farmer land clearings and toxic fumes from old diesel vehicle engines ?  

Edited June 1, 2020 by Destiny1990

[natway09]

And drinking alcohol as well, ? which is already on the statute books.

Spreading the virus, what a lot of rocking horse sh,,,,t

[MJKT2014]

6 hours ago, smedly said:

smoking is nothing compared to Thailands air pollution and its associated severe heath implications

I'm guessing you are a smoker?

 

As the op said this is related to corona-virus ("Health authorities have said that Covid-19 can spread far and wide on the smoke"). You don't get corona-virus from car exhausts. It comes out your lungs that a passerby can smell if you blow smoke in the air.

Edited June 1, 2020 by MJKT2014

[johnray]

I thought the health minister told everyone to smoke dope a few months back.

[bodga]

3 hours ago, CNXexpat said:

It´s not illegal - but you have to wear a mask if you are smoking in public ????

Barry  Sheene used to have a hole  drilled in his  crash helmet so he could smoke at races.

Died of cancer.

[dodgybros]

6 hours ago, xxeo said:

What does that mean? Smoking is illegal in Thailand in all public areas, on the street etc.?

That is what it should mean

 

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, xxeo said:

What does that mean? Smoking is illegal in Thailand in all public areas, on the street etc.?

Waiting for the ban on all cigarettes from outlets nationwide, or is it only the "bootleg" cigarettes being pulled off the shelves, but buying Thai brands is perfectly acceptable?

[Burma Bill]

6 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Wow. Thailand is becoming unrecognizable to the fun, laid back place I first visited in 98.

 

What a shame it's heading towards becoming a police state.

 

I say this as a non smoker. 

Yes indeed. That is why I left Thailand just over 4 months ago after almost 20 years in "Amazing Trusted Thailand". You could see this coming over the last 6 years. I am also a non-smoker.

[generealty]

I do not smoke but I do object to the foul air they offer here in Thailand. Nothing to do with smokers.

[digger70]

 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Smokers beware! Crackdown means lighting up in public could get you a 5,000 baht fine

Are they for real? what an Nonsense . People can drink until stupid drunk and drive a MC & car and kill anyone . How many deaths from smoking every Year What they Can Prove 100% , No statistics, Real numbers please? How many deaths & accidents from drinking and driving/riding Under influence of Alcohol . Better if they get their Priorities in order to run the Country and  stop the Corruption and Police the Law on Road rules and safety.

Next they want you to do is Document What you're doing in the cot besides Sleeping . ????