Japanese Man Attacked in Bangkok for Filming Smokers

In Bangkok, a Japanese tourist was attacked after filming people smoking in a prohibited area. Witnesses reported the group confronted him aggressively before the situation turned physical. The case has drawn attention to the challenges of enforcing public health regulations, as well as the risks individuals face when confronting or recording violators in public spaces.

I don't understand why they would attack him. Simply telling him to stop, due to privacy laws in Thailand, or they would sue should have been tried first. 

In many parts of LOS smoking is pretty much anywhere and everywhere. I am in CNX and everytime I go out I smell cigarette smoke like when I exit my building, cross the 7=11 and  while just walking on the siedwalk. I stopped eating in patios and never ever dine outdoors. The only time I ever tell someoone to smoke elsewhere is when it blows directly into me.  Otherwise I just "suck it up" and carry on. I still can't believe how cheap cigarettes are in LOS.  Where I come from (California) a pack is almost $9 (290 Baht) and this is how the US Government has "encouraged and motivated" many in America to just quit. In LOS I do not see any decline in cigarette smoking anytime soon.  The Japanese tourist should have just moved on.  I am not saying he deserved it but in this case just letting it go would have been the better choice. 

9 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

In many parts of LOS smoking is pretty much anywhere and everywhere. I am in CNX and everytime I go out I smell cigarette smoke like when I exit my building, cross the 7=11 and  while just walking on the siedwalk. I stopped eating in patios and never ever dine outdoors. The only time I ever tell someoone to smoke elsewhere is when it blows directly into me.  Otherwise I just "suck it up" and carry on. I still can't believe how cheap cigarettes are in LOS.  Where I come from (California) a pack is almost $9 (290 Baht) and this is how the US Government has "encouraged and motivated" many in America to just quit. In LOS I do not see any decline in cigarette smoking anytime soon.  The Japanese tourist should have just moved on.  I am not saying he deserved it but in this case just letting it go would have been the better choice. 

In Australia a pack of 20 will cost you over 40 dollars. The strategy to reduce smoking by increasing taxes is backfiring spectacularly. Organised crime are making billions out of cheap smokes being smuggled in to the country. Many cheap smoke shops are being fire bombed in gang warfare activities. Nobody has learnt anything from the USA alcohol prohibition in the early part of last century. That was a direct cause of the rise in organised crime. If somebody wants something, someone will supply.

I can buy a pack of 20 for ten dollars at a cheap smoke shop. The government is losing billions in unpaid taxes.

6 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

In Australia a pack of 20 will cost you over 40 dollars. The strategy to reduce smoking by increasing taxes is backfiring spectacularly. Organised crime are making billions out of cheap smokes being smuggled in to the country. Many cheap smoke shops are being fire bombed in gang warfare activities. Nobody has learnt anything from the USA alcohol prohibition in the early part of last century. That was a direct cause of the rise in organised crime. If somebody wants something, someone will supply.

I can buy a pack of 20 for ten dollars at a cheap smoke shop. The government is losing billions in unpaid taxes.

Speaking of smuggling.   

 

In the U.S. of A., I have read news reports of tractor trailer loads of cigarettes being hijacked.   The tractor trailer is later found abandoned on a street in New York City where the cigaretts are sold, without paying the New York state and New York city taxes.   They even counterfit the tax stamps which are applied to the cigarette packs. 

Group of Chinese attacking a Japanese person.  Possible hate crime.

 

 

Utter morons.

4 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

Utter morons.

 

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