Less Thais smoking but more needs to be done - ban in Bangkok condos underway

[webfact]

Picture: Naew Na

 

Naew Na reported the comments of Rungarun Limlahaphan, director general of a section of the Office of the Health Promotion Fund to mark world no smoking day that was yesterday.

 

She said that the theme of this year's day was "cigarettes damage the environment".

 

Smokers' and passive smokers' health are both impacted. 

 

Current bans are in place in many places such as schools and other educational institutes, various government offices, businesses, temples,  and beaches and moves are afoot to ban smoking in certain areas of Bangkok condomiums so people have fresh air to breathe. 

 

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She said that information from the national stats office indicated that 9.9 million Thai people aged 15 and above were now smoking representing 17.4% of the population. 

 

Men were 20 times more likely to smoke than women.

 

She admitted that this was better than in 2017 when 10.7 million people above 15 smoked. 

 

But more needed to be done to meet a target set for 2027 to limit smoking to just 14% of 15s and above. 

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Ban in condos is a joke.  My neighbor next door, and below us smoke like they are connected to a power smoker.  There are signs in the hallways as well as in the lifts that smoking is not allowed, but it is not enforced.

[Henk Langeweg]

Fresh air in Bangkok, maybe in the parks but in general hard to find.

[Gottfrid]

It´s just to make cigarettes illegal instead. They kill more people than any other drug.

[talahtnut]

1 minute ago, Gottfrid said:

It´s just to make cigarettes illegal instead. They kill more people than any other drug.

I think you will find that alcohol is the greatest killer.

[Almer]

6 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

It´s just to make cigarettes illegal instead. They kill more people than any other drug.

I second that.

[Almer]

1 minute ago, talahtnut said:

I think you will find that alcohol is the greatest killer.

But you don’t get passive drinkers 

[Jai Dee]

A couple of off-topic and troll posts have been removed.

[Pedrogaz]

Lots of laws here that go unenforced and ignored. Does it surprise anyone that almost all Thais wear masks????

If they disobey most other laws, why do they obey only this one?

I saw a woman put a mask on a child she was going to ride with on a motorbike........no helmet, but a mask? Why don't mothers care about kids heads and brains, but obsess about masks?

[khunpa]

Here in Chiang Mai we all (adults and kids) enjoy smoking 24/7 … 3-4 months per year. 

[hotchilli]

Do what other countries have done, instead of banning them price them off the market.

Price will have the greatest effect on getting people to cut down or give up.

[2long]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Men were 20 times more likely to smoke than women.

Can we still say this, in 2022, especially in Thailand?

I mean it's so black and white, isn't it?

I identify as a cucumber on every third day.

[Xonax]

Maybe the number of smokers would drop significantly, if thay made vaping legal?

[Bert got kinky]

 

Less Thais smoking

Fewer

 

????

 

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, Gottfrid said:

It´s just to make cigarettes illegal instead.

Nonsense, there are no plans for that.

[Liverpool Lou]

15 minutes ago, Xonax said:

Maybe the number of smokers would drop significantly, if thay made vaping legal?

And maybe not.

[Sweet Swede]

I been living here since 1995 and there is not many smokers left here(except for me). In my early days many people smoked but today there is not many.

[talahtnut]

Banning smoking will do nothing.

To save the environment 90% of human life must be eradicated

[dinsdale]

I remember a few years back they banned smoking at home saying you had to be 5 meters I think it was maybe 10 from your front door. That put me in the middle of the road. LOL.

[Barefootknobby]

If exits were legal, smoking would reduce significantly. Ecigs cured my addiction and many friends too in the uk

[OneMoreFarang]

Apart from the little fact that it wouldn't be enforced I wonder what smokers who own a condominium should do.

Should they just decide to stop smoking?

Or should they go 20 times a day to the street to smoke?

Or maybe they need a "cleanroom" with special filter system in their unit so that they can smoke?

 

I never smoked but I am realistic. Lots of (older) people do smoke. It was fashion some time ago. And most of these people can't just quit.

 

If smoking is really so bad then don't sell cigarettes. And don't sell alcohol. And don't allow fast food and maybe no driving and no this and no that. This world is going nuts.

[Gottfrid]

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Nonsense, there are no plans for that.

Never posted that. What I posted was what I saw fit.

[PaulDee]

2 hours ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

Less Thais smoking

Fewer

 

????

 

Cheers, Bert,

 

It's about time somebody pointed that out.

Let help improve literacy on ASEAN NOW.

 

 

[metisdead]

An off topic post about traffic carnage has been removed.

[OneMoreFarang]

5 minutes ago, digger70 said:

What about the traffic Carnage Every day ? what are they doing about that? Absolutely Fig all. Oh that's not important.

There are established solutions.

 

[itsari]

3 hours ago, talahtnut said:

I think you will find that alcohol is the greatest killer.

most smokers drink , therefore it is a combination of the two .

[digger70]

51 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

There are established solutions.

 

Yea ,I don't know if they will work for me  ????

[Chongalulu]

4 hours ago, talahtnut said:

4 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

It´s just to make cigarettes illegal instead. They kill more people than any other drug.

I think you will find that alcohol is the greatest killer.

No he’s correct. Smoking related diseases are far bigger killers. There is,unlike alcohol,no safe amount. That said,prohibition doesn’t work. Education and banning in public places helps is the better incentive along with taxation. It is preposterous to ban vaping and allow smoking.

[Card]

7 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Ban in condos is a joke.  My neighbor next door, and below us smoke like they are connected to a power smoker.  There are signs in the hallways as well as in the lifts that smoking is not allowed, but it is not enforced.

U bothered to officially report it to management or not done anything except whinge?

[Card]

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Do what other countries have done, instead of banning them price them off the market.

Price will have the greatest effect on getting people to cut down or give up.

Other countries have banned smoking in public areas, haven't u heard?