To boost tourism image make Ko Tao smoke-free

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Date : 15 พฤศจิกายน 2557 http://thainews.prd.go.th/centerweb/newsen/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNSOC5711150010019

SURAT THANI, 15 November 2014 (NNT) – Many agencies are campaigning for Koh Tao Island to be a smoke-free area in efforts to boost the island’s tourism image.

The Thai Health Promotion Foundation, the Koh Samui municipality, and the Action on Smoking and Health Foundation are pushing to make Koh Tao Island in Surat Thani province a smoke-free area along with Koh Samui and Ko Pha Ngan in the ‘Islanders get together for no smoke’ campaign.

Local leaders, the general public, and the media have visited communities and tourist attractions to hand out anti-smoke stickers to the people and merchants in the area. The campaign aims to improve the tourism image of the island.

In Thailand, there is a Non-Smoker's Health Protection Act which has decreed that public areas must be smoke-free in order to protect the health of non-smokers from the dangers of second hand smoking.

The Ministry of the Public Health has also announced additional smoke-free areas to guard the health of the public.

According to the Executive Secretary of Action on Smoking and Health Foundation, Prakit Vathesatogkit, about 50,710 people in Thailand have died each year from smoking during 2013-2014.

The campaign on the islands are expected to help reduce the number of deaths from smoking, said the Executive Secretary.

[Crazy chef 1]

and next Jamaica will be smoke free as well- what are all these backpackers are going to do the whole day?

Edited November 16, 2014 by Crazy chef 1

[carmine]

Is this april 1st?

[gerry123]

smoke free mmmmmmmmmmmmmm good theory of course wont work in practice to much easy tax revenue lost me thinks

at a guess 50 % of visitors smoke or will wish to have the choice to do exactly as they want in that direction

energy needs to be directed to more serious matters if people wish to die by choice then so be it

[daveAustin]

Okaaay. Personally, I'd target the burning of leaves, plastic and other rubbish and fit all songthaews with catalytic converters; the real instigator for ill health of all. But if you really want to boost the tourism image of Koh Tao, start by solving the recent murders and putting the real killers behind bars, followed by the culling of the real island scourge, the mafia!!! People will always find a way to kill themselves anyway. I'm not a 'smoker', but let people do what they want, as long as they do it away from others, who gives a ****.

[Tropicalevo]

Sadly, this will not work.

The laws in Thailand dictate that smoking is not allowed in restaurants or bars. Whether 'open' plan or not.

However, I have yet to see a bar/restaurant owner that enforces these laws.

I do understand the problem - why kick out a paying guest and thus send him to the opposition? Totally understandable if you are running a business.

Koh Tao has no incinerator plant. How will the garbage be disposed of?

Smoke free Koh Tao - sorry - flying pigs again

[impulse]

Yup. Pass one more law and give your visitors one more point of data to prove that quite a few locals are above the law.

[thailiketoo]

I remember living in Chiang Mai one particularly smoky season and the authorities banned Korean restaurants from cooking outside to solve the problem.

[impulse]

I remember living in Chiang Mai one particularly smoky season and the authorities banned Korean restaurants from cooking outside to solve the problem.

How'd that work out?

[Mole]

MAJORITY of the island consists of tourists and migrant workers!! Obviously they've smoked from ELSEWHERE their entire life, so making the island tobacco free won't save any lives and it won't certainly NOT prevent the local mafia to rape and kill.

Besides, it's not like the local families will suddenly decide to stop smoking. What it will do is open opportunities for the police to get more tea money.

The local people must have totally lost touch.

Here's some elementary lessons:

Stop raping and killing and other nastiness excrements = will help boost image, but it'll take time for people to forget.

Stop smoking (of tobacco I presume?) = won't do a dame difference to the image of the island. It'll only make you folks who thought of it as being desperately trying too hard.

Edited November 16, 2014 by Mole

[alfalfa19]

Aren't there some rather more serious issues to address on Koh Tao at this time? Or has all that unpleasantness been forgotten already?

[ksamuiguy]

This to will pass!

[Thai at Heart]

Where do they get these ideas. Can they even legally make the island non smoking? What are they going to be if a tourist lights up?

Arrest him? oh great.

[NamKAheng]

More tea money for the BiB

[sootybrown]

Would have thought Death, Murder, Kill free would be a better idea.

[Neilly]

Local leaders, the general public, and the media have visited communities and tourist attractions to hand out anti-smoke stickers to the people and merchants in the area. The campaign aims to improve the tourism image of the island.

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Campaign launched to make Koh Tao smoke-free







SURAT THANI, 17 November 2014 (NNT) – Many agencies are campaigning for Koh Tao Island to be a smoke-free area in efforts to boost the island’s tourism image.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/777138-campaign-launched-to-make-koh-tao-smoke-free/

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