Cabinet endorses plan to cut number of smokers in five years

BANGKOK, 20 April 2016 (NNT)-The Cabinet has reportedly endorsed the 2nd National Strategy For Tobacco Control that is aimed at reducing the number of smokers in five years.

The 2nd National Strategy For Tobacco Control plan consists of six strategies. They are focused on making people aware of the negative health effects of smoking, preventing new smokers adopting the habit, providing greater access to help if a smoker wants to quit smoking, implementing tobacco ingredient controls, restricting smoking to designated areas and enforcing the tobacco tax.

The endorsement is expected to save 25% more people from cigarette addiction by 2019. The Cabinet has also given the green light to a proposal that will enable physical education teachers to become civil servant employees in a bid to solve teacher shortages.

During the cabinet meeting, Cabinet members were also briefed on efforts being made to restore destroyed forests, by Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan. He said local residents have already been asked to cooperate with the authorities when the restoration process begins. Forest restoration will take place first in Chiang Mai and Nan.


-- NNT 2016-04-20

Good, it's quite rare I see a woman smoking here, the men have a bit of catching up to do.

Dream on!

Is this the same Cabinet that vowed to cut Songkran deaths

Only one strategy required....put the price up to 500 Baht a pack....end of problem !

Only one strategy required....put the price up to 500 Baht a pack....end of problem !

Its an idea but methinks violent crime would go through the roof.

All this cabinet do is talk, talk, with no obvious results... Songkran deaths highest level for 10 years, pollution in the North same if not worse than previous years, inflation up, gas prices up and down like a whore's drawers, in short they haven't got a clue..

Do those measures include that cigarettes can't be purchased during certain times of the day ?

Start by enforcing the existing laws.

Ban smoking in any public place. That means outside, standing on the sidewalk and hanging around entrances to buildings.

Do both of those things, do it effectively NATION WIDE.

Do those measures include that cigarettes can't be purchased during certain times of the day ?

and banned from being sold within 300m of a school.

Do those measures include that cigarettes can't be purchased during certain times of the day ?

and banned from being sold within 300m of a school.

You mean ''near'' a school

Only one strategy required....put the price up to 500 Baht a pack....end of problem !

Only if they put the tax on gasoline to the same level, a much bigger problem. While we are at, it let's introduce a obesity tax as well. Hell let's tax everything to much higher levels.

I get cranky by people such as you, ever heard of live and let live ?

Start by enforcing the existing laws.

Ban smoking in any public place. That means outside, standing on the sidewalk and hanging around entrances to buildings.

Do both of those things, do it effectively NATION WIDE.

Outside standing on the sidewalk ? You must be joking. Here in Krung Thep, cigarette smoke is the least of your problems.

I remember going to Hong Kong, went to Kowloon to make pictures of the scrapers on Hong Kong island, less than a kilometer away, unfortunately the smog coming from China was so bad, those scrapers were barely visible !

Yet on that boulevard, you aren't allowed to smoke. A perfect example of the anti smoke mafia being utterly ridiculous, spare me the <deleted> please.

Wouldn't basic infrastructure be more important to Thailand , than sitting around thinking about how to stop people smoking?

And yet, Thailand has practically outlawed the one harm-reduction method which actually works - vaping.