E-cigarettes: Top model and girlfriend of "hi-so" under investigation after major bust

[webfact]

E-cigarettes: Top model and girlfriend of "hi-so" under investigation after major bust

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported on the fallout from a major bust of an online E-cigarette business. 

 

Some 50,000 bottles of vaping fluid, gallons of other fluid, 1,500 smoking devices and associated equipment was seized. It was all worth 10 million baht and was being sold online. 

 

Four people have so far been arrested.

 

Now 20 models and pretties (PR women) are being investigated along with investors and others behind the operation. 

The women will face prosecution for promoting the products after the probe has been completed. 

 

Daily News reported - without naming names - that one of the women is a top magazine model who is a girlfriend of a "hi-so" society figure who is also under investigation for being part of the illegal operation. 

 

The case involves the production of vaping fluid for which very severe prison sentences can be given. 

 

The women promoting the products would also face sanction under advertising laws. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[sammieuk1]

Welcome to the world class nuthouse of 1820 ????

[Virt]

It's so darn crazy to ban e-cigs that helped millions across the world taking a step away from regular cigarettes. 

 

Find a way to tax the juice and allow the sale once again. 

Maybe ban the flavored juices if they suspect that is why the youth start smoking e-cigs 

 

Allowing regular cigarettes while banning e-cigs does not make any sense, unless it's to protect the regular cigarette industry. 

[2530Ubon]

Are they sure that it's e-cigs this time? Or will we see a new headline tomorrow with "huge bust turns out to be laundry liquid"

 

Pointless law anyway.

[PatOngo]

Listen to the authorities, THEY know what is good for you!

 

[Phuketshrew]

 

56 minutes ago, webfact said:

Some 50,000 bottles of vaping fluid, gallons of other fluid

A little worrying that they were probably making and selling their own bootleg vaping fluid. God knows what went into that or how safe it would be.

[djayz]

8 minutes ago, Virt said:

to protect the regular cigarette industry.

My money's on this. The tobacco industry and their lobbyists are very influential and have deep, deep pockets. 

[overherebc]

3 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

 

A little worrying that they were probably making and selling their own bootleg vaping fluid. God knows what went into that or how safe it would be.

That is absolutely the most important point. Maybe the ingredients alone are not dangerous, but, heated and vaporised <deleted>> knows what the results are.

[Virt]

5 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

 

A little worrying that they were probably making and selling their own bootleg vaping fluid. God knows what went into that or how safe it would be.

 

Yeah that's true.

Which is why a controlled state or private production would make more sense instead of completely banning it. 

 

There are a lot of money to be made from e-cigs, so why don't the Thai tobacco companies start to look into that. Who says they can't make money of both products? 

 

[Salerno]

16 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

A little worrying that they were probably making and selling their own bootleg vaping fluid. God knows what went into that or how safe it would be.

 

I take it you're not a vaper.

[Spatiumus]

17 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

A little worrying that they were probably making and selling their own bootleg vaping fluid.

Where did it say that?

[Spatiumus]

1 minute ago, Salerno said:

 

I take it you're not a vaper.

"...a vaper"

What's more worrying is that there now seems to be a noun to describe someone taking part in that ridiculous activity!

[Salerno]

What's more ridiculous is people commenting on a subject when they obviously know little about it.

[overherebc]

15 minutes ago, Spatiumus said:

Where did it say that?

From the OP

 

The production of vaping liquid is a prosecution point.

[Mr Meeseeks]

40 minutes ago, Virt said:

Allowing regular cigarettes while banning e-cigs does not make any sense, unless it's to protect the regular cigarette industry. 

100% the case. 

 

Just look at the massive fines and excise duties on imported tobacco and the continuing legal wrangling with Philip Morris over cigarettes from the Philippines. 

 

The cigarette industry in Thailand lines the pockets of a privileged few, much like the alcohol industry, the sugar industry etc. 

 

You dare not interfere with that. 

[RichardColeman]

Going to get my wife - who does not smoke - to come to the UK for a short holiday when this is over. Get her to buy a e-ciggie, post some pictures on the net puffing it and then claim asylum for fear of prosecution in Thailand !

[Neeranam]

Hi so's girlfriends do NOT get charged for minor crimes, ever. 

[Spatiumus]

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

1 hour ago, Spatiumus said:

Where did it say that?

From the OP

The OP did not say that they were "making and selling their own bootleg vaping fluid" which is what I queried.

[overherebc]

14 minutes ago, Spatiumus said:

The OP did not say that they were "making and selling their own bootleg vaping fluid" which is what I queried.

I'll go with production of being the same as making.

Maybe they are both qualified chemists

Not saying they are, just askin'

Your answer is a bit like a lawyers response.

Is this good for you?

Lawyers answer  No-one has said it's bad for you.

[Salerno]

1 minute ago, overherebc said:

Maybe they are both qualified chemists

 

Why would they need to be chemists?

[overherebc]

2 minutes ago, Salerno said:

 

Why would they need to be chemists?

I would reckon qualified chemists could tell you what is produced when you heat a mixture of different chenicals.

How many 'top models' can?

 

[GeorgeCross]

2 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

 

A little worrying that they were probably making and selling their own bootleg vaping fluid. God knows what went into that or how safe it would be.

 

where do you think the "legit" stuff is produced? Pfizer's Bio4 lab? 

 

 

[Salerno]

  

2 minutes ago, overherebc said:

I would reckon qualified chemists could tell you what is produced when you heat a mixture of different chenicals.

 

What chemicals would that be?

[jacko45k]

2 hours ago, Virt said:

Allowing regular cigarettes while banning e-cigs does not make any sense, unless it's to protect the regular cigarette industry. 

Well yes.... and it is a monopoly too.

[Justgrazing]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Now 20 models and pretties (PR women) are being investigated along with investors and others behind the operation. 

The women will face prosecution for promoting the products after the probe has been completed

 

Charging 'em is a bit petty .. surely just a good probing would suffice .. 

 

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, Justgrazing said:

Charging 'em is a bit petty .. surely just a good probing would suffice ..

I'm sure there would be a queue to do that - after all, the headline did mention a 'major bust'.

[overherebc]

23 minutes ago, Salerno said:

  

 

What chemicals would that be?

Double double, toil and trouble

Fire burn and Cauldron buuble.

( MacBeth )

 

You'll get a good idea of those chemicals there. ????????

[biggles45]

'who is a girlfriend of a "hi-so" society figure' 

And will walk! 

[Phuketshrew]

32 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

where do you think the "legit" stuff is produced? Pfizer's Bio4 lab? 

 

Very funny. Believe it or not the production and sale of vaping liquid is regulated in the western world by the FDA in the US, the MHRA TPD (Tobacco Products Directive) in the UK and the EU. I doubt very much whether the vaping liquid manufactured in the OP that I referred to is regulated in any way.

[Oldie]

Does anyone know if this e-cigarette shop at the Central Pattaya Road got close in the meantime? Pattaya seems to be more relaxed. I also saw a lot of Shisha smoking in open air bars in Central Pattaya. A sex AND smokers paradise this city.