trogers Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 30 minutes ago, gamini said: Wonderful news. Thanks to inconsiderate smokers and their secondhand smoke, I am dying of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) Stop smothering your dog... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny1990 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Interesting to see the first Thai person getting fingerpointed ,fined 100,000 bht and jailed one year for this serious crime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silent Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 2 hours ago, captspectre said: Smoking is now a major crime in pattaya, yet the raw sewage that is being dumped into the ocean everyday is not? you would have to be brain dead to swim near the beach in pattaya. just last month there was a major story on thai visa concerning this. It's just an "innovative" revenue enhancer from handsome non Thais. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shackleton Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 The laws on smoking in Thailand are a farce been in hotels with no smoking signs in the rooms with ashtrays on the side tables Plus people out in the streets smoking throwing the butts on the road only when it involves a Farang they seem to take it seriously Don't start me off smoking in bars restaurants ect some owned by Farangs with their mates all lighting up at the bar Money to some comes before other people's health Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbagwill Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 3 hours ago, trogers said: I would have thought driving kills more. Does the mayor sees more carnage on the beaches than the roads? Smoking kills twice as many people as road deaths in Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masuk Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 2 hours ago, jacko45k said: I saw them breath checking someone yesterday, it was about 11am. wow! let there be more. The 1000 seater karaoke bar next to HILLSIDE needs a few of these at the various exits at throwing out time. This must be one of the few ASEAN countries where alcoholic drivers kill more than smoking does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun Paul Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Must be a numpty to alienate about 70% of the Thai population that smoke then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSixpack Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 44 minutes ago, likeke said: FINALLY! Now start finding smokers inside restaurants and bars. These idiots who light up while I'm eating my food should be shot on site. I am serious. Those idiots who eat after I do while I light up a fine cigar should be—well, not shot (I'm a lot kinder than you) but merely given doggie bags in which to pack the remainder of their meals and invited to leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSixpack Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 50 minutes ago, gamini said: Wonderful news. Thanks to inconsiderate smokers and their secondhand smoke, I am dying of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) How much longer? Pls don't ask for cremation in Thailand. Smoke, you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masuk Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 6 minutes ago, Airbagwill said: Smoking kills twice as many people as road deaths in Thailand It's by far the biggest killer in Indonesia; the average age of death of the male population was 53 not so long ago. The smoking industry there has a lot of support from the Govt. My high school students defended this as the govt propaganda extols the huge number of people employed in that industry. That does not include doctors, nurses, burial services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trogers Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 10 minutes ago, Airbagwill said: Smoking kills twice as many people as road deaths in Thailand How many die from visiting the beaches (before the ban) and how many die on the roads of Pattaya? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimn Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I do not know of any enclosed gogo bar in Pattaya where a smoking ban is in place. One gogo I know of tried a non smoking environment but had to revert to allow smoking when he realised that customers were going elsewhere. Myself I hate smoke but realise that over here unlike the UK that a smoking ban is never going to work. All laws over here are simply ignored because they ultimately are never enforced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwaysrainsinUK Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Disgusting habit and smokers are selfish they dont give a hoot who they smoke beside and not only in Thai but in UK they stand outside Tescos etc blowing out poison to everyone thats walking in to do shopping. I hate it with a passion, its bad when u have to tell your daughter to hold her breath an walk fast while going past the filth blowing it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altalake Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Good for Pattaya! Now to enforce it and make sure it is a success so other Provinces can do the same. Smokers - the most inconsiderate, disgusting and thoughtless lot on the planet. A plague on them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 42 minutes ago, Airbagwill said: Smoking kills twice as many people as road deaths in Thailand Nothing to do with Thai folk sitting round those 'orrible charcoal barby things all their life then....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbagwill Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 14 minutes ago, transam said: Nothing to do with Thai folk sitting round those 'orrible charcoal barby things all their life then....? You can't seriously be that ill informed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazygreg44 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 wasn't this house in the picture, a public toilet on Dongtan Beach before? As the toilet never really worked and only cost them money, I guess they kicked out the cans and made it a smoker's space. The second best solution for non-functional toilets, I guess. Probably it will never receive any care and the butts will pile high along with the cheeky butts on the beach, it gives you the right impression of the dump Pattaya is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiTrav Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 6 hours ago, ezzra said: The thing is, that in Pattaya and in many other arias around Thailand, they don't do diddly squat for many years and about many problelms and than they embark on this crusade and over kill of a draconian edict, there are many things that needs to be address and fixed in Pattaya but somehow, smoking become the most important issue, talking about selective targeting... .......Come think how they think its the most easiest and less effort to enforce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbagwill Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 1 hour ago, trogers said: How many die from visiting the beaches (before the ban) and how many die on the roads of Pattaya? Seriously?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsve Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Hey Mayor, what about starting at Second Road in Jomtien? Beachside of the road a little bit south of where soi 7 connect it looks like this in several places. Maybe not so many fags, and probably not caused by tourists and certainly not give any chance to side income but surely a nicer look of the town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trogers Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Just now, Airbagwill said: Seriously?? Seriously! Effort is limited and should be directed to the more serious problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkcanuck8 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 3 hours ago, hawker9000 said: Yeah. 'Held a gun to your head and forced you to start smoking, didn't they? So tell us. What WAS the reason you started smoking? Be honest. I've asked this question a lot, and by far the most common response is along the lines of "because the cool kids [or some such ill-chosen role-model] did". "I'm a victim. Somebody else is responsible. Not my fault." Oh Boo-hoo. I agree with you up to a point. If the person has been hooked on them for 50 years, then the cigarette companies bear some responsibility as well. It was 1964 when the US Surgeon General issued a definitive report that definitively linked them to health issues. Before that point the companies waged a large and effective PR offensive to largely promote cigarette usage as safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidermike007 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 In Bangkok as far as I know, they do enforce some of the bans on smoking. There are some other towns, where they seem to do so. I do not know about Pattaya. I know in Samui, there is zero enforcement. Always has been zero. May always be zero. Anyone can smoke anywhere. Indoors may be the exception, but not always. The extent I used to have to go to, when trying to find a table without a human chimney nearby, was considerable. When I used to ask, is there a no smoking section, the reply was always, do not worry, you can smoke anywhere! One can only hope they are serious about this. It is a benefit for all non smokers. There are few things in life that I find more obnoxious than second hand smoke. And it is not too much to ask a smoker to show a tiny amount of self discipline, by not subjecting non-smokers to their noxious fumes. Especially during a meal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgenon Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 So will they enforce no smoking in the bars? Still waiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airbagwill Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 21 minutes ago, trogers said: Seriously! Effort is limited and should be directed to the more serious problems. I think you seems to have little grasp of how society tackles problems Basically the government is trying to break the habit of smoking by restricting the places it is acceptable. Secondly smoking in shared public places leads to litter and of course the unpleasant smell of cigarette smoke. I also think that 50,000 deaths per year is a serious problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 4 hours ago, captspectre said: Smoking is now a major crime in pattaya, yet the raw sewage that is being dumped into the ocean everyday is not? you would have to be brain dead to swim near the beach in pattaya. just last month there was a major story on thai visa concerning this. Yes but this will bring in revenue.. unlike solving the pollution problem.... it's all about revenue source... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catoni Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 After more than 40 years smoking at least a large pack of 25 a day...(twice that much if at the bar with friends,) I finally quit for good more than ten years ago. Definitely not easy to do... Nicotine has got to be one of the most addicting drugs there is. But feel so much better these days...I don't get bronchitis anymore... smoker's cough is gone... I have my stamina back for running even at 66 years of age now, and the desire for nicotine is finally gone. I would say, if you can make it past the first three weeks without nicotine... you've got it beat... The first three weeks is the hardest. Now, I can even go to the bar for a few drinks and not desire a cigarette..even with smokers near me.. You CAN beat it... ( having that extra money is great too :) ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 50 minutes ago, Airbagwill said: You can't seriously be that ill informed? I find it strange that folk who worked in UK pubs where smoking was aloud for a zillion years have all not dropped dead, why is that...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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transam Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 1 minute ago, Catoni said: After more than 40 years smoking at least a large pack of 25 a day...(twice that much if at the bar with friends,) I finally quit for good more than ten years ago. Definitely not easy to do... Nicotine has got to be one of the most addicting drugs there is. But feel so much better these days...I don't get bronchitis anymore... smoker's cough is gone... I have my stamina back for running even at 66 years of age now, and the desire for nocotine is finally gone. I would say, if you can make it past the first three weeks without nicotine... you've got it beat... The first three weeks is the hardest.. I didn't smoke in the UK for about 20 years but was on a lung puffer...Moved to LOS and in no time l threw away the puffer....I started to smoke again....NO PUFFER needed.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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