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.

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.

-- NNT 2014-11-17

"...in efforts to boost the island’s tourism image."

Jackasses.

Try making it murder free! That may boost tourism!

Campaign launched to make Koh Tao smoke-free

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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.

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-- NNT 2014-11-17

Surely the bigger story is they want to make Koh Samui smoke-free or have they done that already and nobody noticed?

I can understand why........

"There is no smoke where there is no fire"

Because smoking is the problem........

I'd rather run the risk of having to sit next to a smoker than a murderer.

Un forking believable. Thainess at a new all time low.

Would this be a move to curb deaths and the subsequent cremation of the deceased on Kao Tao thus of course reducing the smoke pollution affect affect on the local atmosphere on Kao Tao ?

It beggars belief that these numskulls think that the ban on smoking is going to improve the image of Kao Tao and further boost tourism.

Clean up the smokescreen concerning the recent violent deaths and the subsequent investments investigations by the Thai police farce force and that might just be tiny step forward.

Meanwhile plastic will continue to be burnt everywhere .

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Please make it rape free, murder free and torture free before bothering with this silly trivia.

There is already a national law against smoking in public places. Just ask your brave, morally upright police to enforce it.

Hmmm. Rare to meet a dive instructer who does not smoke.

Boost the island's tourist image after 2 bodies were bludgeoned to death and pathetically covered up by an inept, incompetent and farcical bunch of thugs and crooks masquerading as Police?

For <deleted> sake, GROW UP.

What a strange concept. I'm starting to think that TATs campaigns are decided as follows:

1. Friday night - Morlum party with HUGE hat in middle of dance-floor and a physical ton of Lao Kao. Pens and paper everywhere. All "thoughts" MUST be documented and put in hat.

2. Monday morning (or any desperate moment following murder of tourist) - Pick random idea from hat and GO WITH IT.

3. Start again.

Is it Thursday ??? Ahh stop, this one doesn't come from TAT, anyway a joke.

Well ... can somebody please show me PROOF that smoking actually causes cancer or that anybody dies from "smoking" !

And by this I mean SCIENTIFIC PROOF !

For all I know [after quite some research] it is still just an assumption and by no means proven fact !

No hearsay please or general government propaganda !
Proven facts only !

I'd rather run the risk of having to sit next to a smoker than a murderer.

Why should anyone have to risk either??

'Another small step for the non-addicted.

But these tourists come TO SMOKE!

Now, keep the idea for Huan Hin.

So Koh Tao is not safe because of all the smokers ?

Another reason to not visit

Diversionary tactic alert! Diversionary tactic alert!

Not really a very good one though.

This completely redefines 'clutching at straws'.

No smoking => no cigarette butt => no ADN on cigarette butts => no proof

Perhaps they omitted something in the title during translation...

they dont get it people who goes there to drink booze all night out of the diving schedules,usually smokes

Now when even less tourists grace Koh Tao they can blame the cigarette ban.

The dumbometer just hit new records.

Well ... can somebody please show me PROOF that smoking actually causes cancer or that anybody dies from "smoking" !

And by this I mean SCIENTIFIC PROOF !

For all I know [after quite some research] it is still just an assumption and by no means proven fact !

No hearsay please or general government propaganda !

Proven facts only !

Now this post could be defined as conspiracy theory.

So get all those smoke-screeners off the island, lock em up in jail where they belong and throw away the keys please

I'm speechless

Can they really be THAT facile?