Pattaya imposes 5,000 baht fine for smoking on beaches and footpaths

 

https://www.pattayamail.com/news/pattaya-imposes-5000-baht-fine-for-smoking-on-beaches-and-footpaths-509469

 

So where exactly is a smoker going to smoke now?

 

No way in hell is a smoker going to quit on the spot...

 

If a smoker cant smoke on the beach thats one thing....But the walkway too......No F...ing way....

 

This will be 100% ignored by all smokers...

 

 

 

 

 

They can't, or not supposed to smoke in many Restaurants but they do..., Having twised your ankle on 99% of Pattaya footpath's some  people want a Fag while waiting for the Ambulance..

Thailand loves to makes new rules when they know no one will follow them.

Yeah, just like them fines on not wearing helmets, how's that working for them?

I remember there used to be a Thai health minister supporting all the non smoking agenda, but he was a chain smoker and his room was always a cloud of smoke.

Like most of my mates who never stopped smoking, he's gone too.

    That's a larger fine than not stopping for a pedestrian at a crosswalk.  Color me confused but I think potentially running someone down and killing them is far more serious than smoking in the open air. 

I thought this law was in place even before the bat flu, maybe 2018?

 

I remember having to get off the rented chair and wander onto the footpath for a smoke. That was certainly the case in Jomtien.

 

 

Thats effing stupid now, if I was a tourist I would not come to Thailand with all these rules and regulations, They are driving tourist away. 5000 baht fine how stupid is that?.

26 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

I thought this law was in place even before the bat flu, maybe 2018?

 

I remember having to get off the rented chair and wander onto the footpath for a smoke. That was certainly the case in Jomtien.

 

 

 

I recall going to Bangsaen beach bout the same time.... was no smoking on the beach there too.

 

Edit to add...

 

 

21 minutes ago, carlyai said:

I remember there used to be a Thai health minister supporting all the non smoking agenda, but he was a chain smoker and his room was always a cloud of smoke.

Like most of my mates who never stopped smoking, he's gone too.

 

Lung cancer?

Even as a non-smoker I can see why many would become quite incensed over this......especially when you consider there are so many other things that have a real and serious impact on tourists lives.

 

(However, I have to confess I quiet like secondhand smoke).

14 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

I thought this law was in place even before the bat flu, maybe 2018?

 

I remember having to get off the rented chair and wander onto the footpath for a smoke. That was certainly the case in Jomtien.

 

 

 

The rule was no smoking on the beach....So the smokers smoked on the foot path....No big deal for a smoker...

 

BUT......No smoking on the footpath too is just not workable for a smoker......No place else to smoke but in the road dogging traffic, trying  not to get killed...

I'm not a smoker but they deserve to at least have some designated zones along the beachfront. I'd rather they all puff together and I can sit elsewhere than not allow them to smoke at all.

40 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

So where exactly is a smoker going to smoke now?

On the street or climb up a tree.

5 minutes ago, alien365 said:

I'm not a smoker but they deserve to at least have some designated zones along the beachfront. I'd rather they all puff together and I can sit elsewhere than not allow them to smoke at all.

 

 

Wade out till you're waist deep maybe?

I wish they'd ban durian. 

52 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

So where exactly is a smoker going to smoke now?

 

I'd suggest out of sight of the tents they will set up to fine foreigners, like they do on Sukhumvit between Nana and Asoke in Bangkok. 

 

In the hundreds of times I've been there, I have never seen them fining a Thai person.  Though I have often seen Thais throwing butts and other trash in that area.  But dozens of foreigners. 

 

Personally, I think this is a cash grab, perhaps to make up for falling arrivals.  But I am rather cynical that way.

 

Can a town make an impose a law?

Surely this would have to go through government?

All Thais are allowed, foreigners are not.

 

Same with all these ridiculous so called called.

And right across from beach road are a number of 7-11s selling all the cigarettes you want.....That you cant smoke with out a 5000 baht fine.....lol

48 minutes ago, newnative said:

    That's a larger fine than not stopping for a pedestrian at a crosswalk.  Color me confused but I think potentially running someone down and killing them is far more serious than smoking in the open air. 

Or driving the wrong way down a one-way street or the wrong way down a dual carriageway. 

1 hour ago, redwood1 said:

Pattaya imposes 5,000 baht fine for smoking on beaches and footpaths

 

 

Whoever is above the police need impose a 5000 baht fine on police not enforcing the laws or nothing will happen anyways. One more law on a stack of useless paper.

Paetongtarn had the right idea, she was about to allow smoking rooms back at the airport, she understood how smokers need a fag before their long flight, same as relaxing on the beach you need a fag, 

Just now, ChipButty said:

Paetongtarn had the right idea, she was about to allow smoking rooms back at the airport, she understood how smokers need a fag before their long flight,

 

Oh never noticed....they were all done away with? I remember seeing 10's of bodies dragging away in them and felt like chocking just walking past.

 

When did they go?

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

Even as a non-smoker I can see why many would become quite incensed over this......especially when you consider there are so many other things that have a real and serious impact on tourists lives.

 

(However, I have to confess I quiet like secondhand smoke).

I was knocking a teacher off from Loei, she said it turned her on, no problem I'll see what I can do for you, 

2 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

Oh never noticed....they were all done away with? I remember seeing 10's of bodies dragging away in them and felt like chocking just walking past.

 

When did they go?

she wanted to bring them back

I enlarged the no smoking sign.....

The sign is only in Thai and English.....And the sign says   the fine is 1,000 baht on the sign....The rest of the sign the words are too small to read.....

I guess cig butts will now cover the beach walkway because there will be no place to depose them..

4 hours ago, carlyai said:

I remember there used to be a Thai health minister supporting all the non smoking agenda, but he was a chain smoker and his room was always a cloud of smoke.

Like most of my mates who never stopped smoking, he's gone too.

And most of my mates died too early from smoking

20 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Thailand loves to makes new rules when they know no one will follow them.

Yes, signs including some large fine, parking in front of someone's building was always a good one. I always pondered the idea of whether a little Mall security guy could get a 5000 fine off a shirtless 6 ft 6 Russian!

21 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

I thought this law was in place even before the bat flu, maybe 2018?

 

I remember having to get off the rented chair and wander onto the footpath for a smoke. That was certainly the case in Jomtien.

 

 

Not the same... now you can not smoke on that footpath