Thailand Cracks Down on Vapes with Severe Penalties and Public Reporting

[Baba Naba]

55 minutes ago, renaissanc said:

I see that some posters want vaping to be allowed. Here are some facts about vaping harms:

• Vaping can cause lung damage. Research shows that vaping allows tiny particles to be inhaled deep into the lungs. ...
• Vapes contain toxic chemicals. ...
• Nicotine in vapes is addictive. ...
• Vaping causes breathlessness. ...
• Vapes contain cancer-causing chemicals. ...
• Vapes can burn you. ...
• Vaping can cause nicotine poisoning.
• Asthma. Vaping can make you more likely to get asthma and other lung conditions. 
• Lung scarring. 
• Organ damage. 
• Etc.

 

My God I can smell the bull<deleted> from here!  Almost every single line on your list is a LIE!!!  Show me any references/proof for your blathering. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/21/how-harmful-are-electronic-cigarettes

[Baba Naba]

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/09/12/dont-panic-about-e-cigarettes

[Baba Naba]

https://scientificorigin.com/vaping-vs-smoking-is-one-better-than-the-other

[ikke1959]

1 hour ago, renaissanc said:

I see that some posters want vaping to be allowed. Here are some facts about vaping harms:

• Vaping can cause lung damage. Research shows that vaping allows tiny particles to be inhaled deep into the lungs. ...
• Vapes contain toxic chemicals. ...
• Nicotine in vapes is addictive. ...
• Vaping causes breathlessness. ...
• Vapes contain cancer-causing chemicals. ...
• Vapes can burn you. ...
• Vaping can cause nicotine poisoning.
• Asthma. Vaping can make you more likely to get asthma and other lung conditions. 
• Lung scarring. 
• Organ damage. 
• Etc.

There are more dangerous goods... How about PFAS, all the medication used for chickens and vegetables and fruits, alcohol, and many more.... Why only use one topic?? 

[Ebumbu]

1 hour ago, renaissanc said:

I see that some posters want vaping to be allowed. Here are some facts about vaping harms:

• Vaping can cause lung damage. Research shows that vaping allows tiny particles to be inhaled deep into the lungs. ...
• Vapes contain toxic chemicals. ...
• Nicotine in vapes is addictive. ...
• Vaping causes breathlessness. ...
• Vapes contain cancer-causing chemicals. ...
• Vapes can burn you. ...
• Vaping can cause nicotine poisoning.
• Asthma. Vaping can make you more likely to get asthma and other lung conditions. 
• Lung scarring. 
• Organ damage. 
• Etc.

 

Now swap the word "vaping" with "Bangkok." 

[newbee2022]

2 hours ago, arick said:

So are they allowing you to take your vape in your carry-on. Are they waiting for you to recharge your vape on the board with your charging pack.

Only ignorants would use it here😨

[watchcat]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Under Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who initially favoured legalisation during her campaign,

 

Smoked much ganja in your former days?

[newbee2022]

2 hours ago, renaissanc said:

I see that some posters want vaping to be allowed. Here are some facts about vaping harms:

• Vaping can cause lung damage. Research shows that vaping allows tiny particles to be inhaled deep into the lungs. ...
• Vapes contain toxic chemicals. ...
• Nicotine in vapes is addictive. ...
• Vaping causes breathlessness. ...
• Vapes contain cancer-causing chemicals. ...
• Vapes can burn you. ...
• Vaping can cause nicotine poisoning.
• Asthma. Vaping can make you more likely to get asthma and other lung conditions. 
• Lung scarring. 
• Organ damage. 
• Etc.

Thank you. This (or similar) was posted many times already when it comes to vaping. Good that you did it today again.👍

Apparently some missed this because they are addicted to vaping already or just ignorants closing eyes and ears. Or follow promoting YouTube, TikTok or FB vids. And those are lost in their fake world. 🤗

[Phuket Pete]

War on Vapers whilst black smoke bellows from exhaust pipes, toxic waste burns in gardens everywhere and agricultural burning creates a choking cloud above the country ?  Thai logic I guess !  Don't try arguing with that !

[Jonathan Swift]

16 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Solution number 1     Everybody needs to go smoking normal cigarettes, they are unhealthier, and will contribute to raise the hospital costs.

Solution number 2  Only not allowed for foreigners.. many Thai policemen, Government officials, military, teachers and others are vaping, but that is no problem

Solution number 3  Legalize the whole thing and make it expensive with more tax so that the country will get money to help people instead of their own cigarettes companies

This all being based on a highly addictive substance, with lots of profits involved, two reasons why nothing will change. Same reason cigarettes are still around. It's why you will never stop illegal drugs, ever. Never have, never will. Me and my silly common sense once thought that vapes would help cut down the far worse problem of cigarette smoke (including the problem of secondhand smoke). But what I see is that smokers are not motivated to switch. At least here. They don't care. Sometimes I almost think that cigarette smokers come here just because they can get away with smoking everywhere that they can't in their home countries. Tobacco companies are evil. Cigarette smokers who disregard others are pigs. When I was a kid and a teenager both my parents and most of their friends smoked and there were no anti smoking laws, but it was simple common courtesy for someone to ask someone nearby if they minded if they smoked. And nobody ever smoked around people who were eating, except maybe stinky local bars. Common courtesy. Nobody ever does that here. 

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[Ralf001]

3 hours ago, thenewgoo said:

Tourists who like to vape may want to consider alternative holiday destinations.

 

That would be great, no complaints from me.

[2long]

Is there something called the Thai Tobacco Monopoly, or something similar?

Just sayin'.

[Maxbkkcm]

16 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Solution number 1     Everybody needs to go smoking normal cigarettes, they are unhealthier, and will contribute to raise the hospital costs.

Solution number 2  Only not allowed for foreigners.. many Thai policemen, Government officials, military, teachers and others are vaping, but that is no problem

Solution number 3  Legalize the whole thing and make it expensive with more tax so that the country will get money to help people instead of their own cigarettes companies

Solution number 4 ban both. And be merciless about it. Its time to end this poison as well as all the drugs. And to do it fully without mercy. 

[paulbrow]

2 hours ago, renaissanc said:

I see that some posters want vaping to be allowed. Here are some facts about vaping harms:

• Vaping can cause lung damage. Research shows that vaping allows tiny particles to be inhaled deep into the lungs. ...
• Vapes contain toxic chemicals. ...
• Nicotine in vapes is addictive. ...
• Vaping causes breathlessness. ...
• Vapes contain cancer-causing chemicals. ...
• Vapes can burn you. ...
• Vaping can cause nicotine poisoning.
• Asthma. Vaping can make you more likely to get asthma and other lung conditions. 
• Lung scarring. 
• Organ damage. 
• Etc.

Can easily replace vapes with cigarettes, so, why no crackdown on them?

[Moonlover]

4 minutes ago, 2long said:

Is there something called the Thai Tobacco Monopoly, or something similar?

Just sayin'.

Yes there is:

 

https://en.thaitobacco.or.th

[Thordart]

Rules are rules. Why should we change the country? We have enough of our own country. Where people want to change it too.

[keysersoze276]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

who initially favoured legalisation during her campaign, the government has reversed course

As did every single one of her predecessors on several isses, some of them being of even lower importance than this.  Monkey see, monkey do. 

[keysersoze276]

2 minutes ago, Thordart said:

Rules are rules. Why should we change the country? We have enough of our own country. Where people want to change it too.

Was going to laugh at you but it’s cool. People with down syndrome or whatever are entitled to post whatever this is. I’m rooting for you, Buttdart.

 

[dinsdale]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

individuals caught with these illegal items facing up to five years in prison and substantial fines.

To those on here that argued black and blue that vapes were not illegal when I posted about heavy fines and jail terms what do you have to say now. My guess is NOTHING. This whole thing about health is of course complete rubbish when cigs are legal as I have pointed out many times previous.

[terryofcrete]

3 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

I'm very happy with RTP at present.

Vapers out❗

Vipers out ! The ministers with the biggest share in the tobacco industry 

[digger70]

Thailand Cracks Down on Vapes with Severe Penalties and Public Reporting

 

How stupid are they . they have more important  issues to deal with than Vaping and Weed .

Go to the Real heavy duty problems put All the Manpower on to those.

Corruption/ Traffic Violations /Health and Safety/unlicensed Wannabe Trades people

When all this is under control l(witch is never) think about A bit of smoking.

[keysersoze276]

15 minutes ago, Maxbkkcm said:

Solution number 4 ban both. And be merciless about it. Its time to end this poison as well as all the drugs. And to do it fully without mercy. 

Do you realize Thailand has a long going battle with narcotics and meth?  Thailand is the bottom of the golden triangle.  You are suggesting they should do what, exactly?  Prisons can’t even fit rapists and murders. They should arrest and imprison people having a puff off of a vape or smoking a cigarette?  Behead them in the town square?  The weed shops, meth dealers and new casinos in route will pay for new prisons?  Get your head out of your a$$. 

[dinsdale]

2 hours ago, renaissanc said:

I see that some posters want vaping to be allowed. Here are some facts about vaping harms:

• Vaping can cause lung damage. Research shows that vaping allows tiny particles to be inhaled deep into the lungs. ...
• Vapes contain toxic chemicals. ...
• Nicotine in vapes is addictive. ...
• Vaping causes breathlessness. ...
• Vapes contain cancer-causing chemicals. ...
• Vapes can burn you. ...
• Vaping can cause nicotine poisoning.
• Asthma. Vaping can make you more likely to get asthma and other lung conditions. 
• Lung scarring. 
• Organ damage. 
• Etc.

Nobody is saying that vaping doesn't have associated health problems or possible health problems. The argument is vaping is less harmful than smoking so using health as a reason for the making vapes illegal whilst cigarettes are legal doesn't hold water.

[keysersoze276]

1 minute ago, dinsdale said:

Nobody is saying that vaping doesn't have associated health problems or possible health problems. The argument is vaping is less harmful than smoking so using health as a reason for the making vapes illegal whilst cigarettes are legal doesn't hold water.

Amen. 

[dinsdale]

42 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:

what I see is that smokers are not motivated to switch. At least here.

This is simply a generalisation. I stopped cigs with vaping and so have some other people I know. 

[newbee2022]

20 minutes ago, terryofcrete said:

Vipers out ! The ministers with the biggest share in the tobacco industry 

Why not?

[jcmj]

I used vaping to stop smoking after 40 years of smoking cigarettes. I don’t smoke around people who don’t smoke and the same went with vaping. I’m not one of those people who enjoys big smoke clouds when vaping. It’s been healthier for me and at least I don’t make everything smell like cigarette smoke anymore. They have proven that they can control it with the bans, fines and seizures of products. Why can’t they just have and enforce laws to stop allowing children to vape and keep the smokers from smoking in the wrong places? Now the kids and probably myself will be back to smoking cigarettes. Seems like they haven’t been able to control underage drinking or smoking, which seems odd considering that they are able to do this with vaping. I guess it’s just the lack of enforcement and the cigarette and alcohol industry making sure nothing stops them. All they need to do is make it mandatory to scan your id for purchase of any of the above and if your underage you can’t buy it and if you get caught with any their info would be in the system and it’s either the owners fault for selling them or they used a fake id which would bring a fine to the user. 
mad soon as cigarette companies start making their own products I’m sure they’ll plan on doing something like this so they don’t lose anymore revenue. 
I hate the thought of going back to cigarettes but this is what Thailand wants me to do. If they are going to go after one then they should go after them all. Alcohol and cigarettes are both a danger to you. 

[dinsdale]

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Facing substantial penalties, those involved in selling, buying, importing, or using e-cigarettes risk severe repercussions.

5 years jail or a Bt30,000 fine for vaping is insane. Less for driving drunk where you put other people's lives at risk. It's all about tax and protecting the tobacco monopoly. Simple as that. Health has absolutely nothing to do with this. 

[Foek]

Meantime you can get stoned just walking the streets from Mariuana smokers everywhere