Senior Thai Police Continue to Warn Vaping is Illegal even as Debate Over Vaping Laws Continues

[Mad mick]

RTP Need to remember shaking down foreigners for tea money extortion is also  illegal As far as vaping l'm no fan of it !  RTP Mafioso Crime organisation needs to  be taken out and cleaned out Start at the top to the bottom ! Where is big Joke on this wide spread criminal oerganisation RTP + lmigration. CCP ???????? connection ????

Edited February 4, 2023 by Mad mick

[RedRoadRunner]

Thailand again behind the moon ???? 

[ujayujay]

Smoke Marihuana ok, vape illegal????????????

[Cake Monster]

If only they could place as much commitment into the horrendous Death rate on the Roads.

[Purdey]

If you buy heroin on the streets of Lisbon, Portugal, it is not illegal. If you buy on the streets of Boston in the US, it is.

Vaping is legal in most countries but illegal in Thailand. Why don't travel agents and embassies not make people aware of these laws? Foreigners often visit countries like Thailand because of their different cultures. Why should different laws be such a shock? 

[tomacht8]

26 minutes ago, Purdey said:

If you buy heroin on the streets of Lisbon, Portugal, it is not illegal. If you buy on the streets of Boston in the US, it is.

Vaping is legal in most countries but illegal in Thailand. Why don't travel agents and embassies not make people aware of these laws? Foreigners often visit countries like Thailand because of their different cultures. Why should different laws be such a shock? 

I suspect it's not a question of whether it's legal or not, but rather the idiotic level of possible penalties. Possessing an ecigar, smoking an ecigar or importing an ecigar is criminally almost equivalent to intentional manslaughter. This is the brain crack.

[Zack61]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

police have a duty to enforce the current laws on record.

And yet they continue to cherry pick which ones they choose to enforce. The word missing in the above statement is “all”

[Aussieroaming]

A potential 500 000 baht fine for vaping? What a rediculous potential penalty for vaping. Wake up Thailand.

Why not make vaping a warning with confiscation of the vaping implement. That in my mind is a reasonable response to any tourist vaping.

[dingdongrb]

No more than 30 minutes ago I witnessed a Thai (guessing in his upper 20s) coming out of a local noodle shop, whip out his vape pen, and started puffing away with little to no concern.

 

Vaping in public is as much of a concern as driving a scooter down the road in the wrong direction. Which I thought was a point violation with this newer point system setup for driving? 

[Puccini]

Now we have been warned. Before buying anything in Thailand, we must make sure that it has not been imported illegally. Otherwise, if we buy it, we possess and own a forbidden product and can be fined and/or jailed.

 

That Uniqlo jacket I bought the other day, how can I be sure that it was not smuggled into Thailand?

[Pedrogaz]

Doesn't the ban on vaping destroy any reputation Thai lawmakers may once have had. The police fail to enforce the need to have a driving licence, speeding or drink driving laws, but enforce the ridiculously harsh penalties for vaping. Go figure.

 

 

[BritScot]

11 hours ago, hellohello123 said:

I think they re waffling on with big numbers and bold statements to sound important and to show people that they're serious  about this.......

No it's to make extortion easier: 25,000baht now or 500,000baht and 5 years in prison later: "You Choose?" It's a bit like the dope scams of The Full Moon Party. Poor kids being arrested and sometimes after being set up, then the phone call to mummy and daddy relaying the threats when infact if it went to court a 5k~10k fine.

[cncltd1973]

don't tell me the RTP doesn't have a sense of humor- this is hilarious on so many levels!

[crazykopite]

I think there are more Thais vaping than tourists at least the tourists go home after a couple of weeks the Thais are here permanently if weed can be legal then so should vaping I do neither so I have nothing to worry about as for non smoking in public places that’s the joke of the year