Dr. Eak (Ekkapob Pianpises) recently unveiled a sub-committee report on the Study of Impacts on Health and Monitoring the Enforcement of Public Health Related Laws under the Committee on Public Health.

 

The report points out that the current e-cigarette ban in Thailand is ineffective; instead, it has led to issues in terms of the clarity of the law, which has caused unaligned interpretations of the law for relevant agencies, unfair treatment towards e-cigarette users and problems of corruption while being unable to reduce the smoking rate or prevent the sale of products to children and young people. The report suggests that the government lift the ban on e-cigarettes and apply harm reduction measures along with current tobacco control policies.

 

Dr. Ekkapob Pianpises (Dr. Eak), former MP of Chiang Rai province and spokesman of the Committee on Public Health, House of Representatives, told the press about the publication from the Public Health sub-committee on tobacco and e-cigarette control, stating:

 

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Ineffective is an understatement exacerbated by the freely available skunk shops championed by a health minister I would say ???? 

Guess they don't believe the recent polls.

21 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The report suggests that the government lift the ban on e-cigarettes and apply harm reduction measures along with current tobacco control policies.

Some common sense at last. 

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Legalisation or regulation would put vaping in conflict with the Thai Tobacco Monopoly and also close a lucrative stream of income for Thai Police. It will never happen!