bust Posted November 23, 2017 Report Share Posted November 23, 2017 Pattaya is serious! 100,000 baht fine for smoking but no jail time mentioned Sophon Cable TV reported that a meeting held at City Hall announced that the authorities fully intended to get tough with smokers who defy the beach lighting up ban. Am anti-smoking committee to organise activities related to the ban has even been set up. But while defiant smokers could face a 100,000 baht fine when the ban is enforced from February 1st no one mentioned the year in jail that was previously threatened. While signage seems to suggest that other mess on the beach will also not be tolerated - "zero waste beach" is the sound bite. The Pattaya ban will only apply to a one kilometer stretch of Jomtien known as Dongtan Beach. It will be applied to other Pattaya beaches later, said Sophon. Head of the beach smoking committee Wuthiphon Jaroenphon said that Pattaya would be getting serious with smokers who defy the ban from February 1st 2018. In the meantime PR campaigns and information drives are being carried out. Officials with signage that said "Smoke-free and Zero Waste Beach" were photographed by the media. Signs will be in Thai, English and Chinese. Wuthiphon said that the 44 beach umbrella and deckchair operators in Dongtan would undergoing training about the ban. The Jomtien experiment will be like one in Patong, Phuket, said Sophon, with other Pattaya beaches to follow later. The scheme to ban smoking is coming into force after a survey carried out by the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources found hundreds of thousands of butts were contaminating Thai beaches in Phuket. It has variously been reported that a jail term could be applied along with the heavy fine but no mention was made of this possibility on the Sophon story on Facebook. Source: Sophon Cable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pasathai1 Posted November 23, 2017 Report Share Posted November 23, 2017 only applies to tourists, right ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted November 23, 2017 Report Share Posted November 23, 2017 Signs will be in Thai, English and Chinese. No Russian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted November 23, 2017 Report Share Posted November 23, 2017 only applies to tourists, right ? English and Chinese speaking tourists 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panadolsandwich Posted November 24, 2017 Report Share Posted November 24, 2017 Brilliant. Stop all smoking by 2020. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted November 25, 2017 Report Share Posted November 25, 2017 Brilliant. Stop all smoking by 2020. Stop Breathing November 2017 do us all a favour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted November 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2017 5555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panadolsandwich Posted November 25, 2017 Report Share Posted November 25, 2017 Stop Breathing November 2017 do us all a favour It's far more likely that you will stop breathing my friend - at least in the limited fashion you happen to be doing now. I've done autopsies where a smoker's lung is barely more than a cinder - a black cancer ridden piece of offal. Compare that to a bright healthily pink lung. But what infuriates me is that people like you won't just die prematurely, but you'll clutter our hospitals and cancer wards needlessly. So if anyone should stop breathing this month - be a good chap, and spare us all the bother. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted November 26, 2017 Report Share Posted November 26, 2017 I've done autopsies 55555 Make you mind up one moment you are telling everyone you are a Surgeon but all of a sudden you are now a Pathologist The closest you will ever get to being a Pathologist is being a Pathological Liar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panadolsandwich Posted November 26, 2017 Report Share Posted November 26, 2017 My surgical training included autopsy and it further involves my ongoing research. I've got nothing to lie to you about. I fail to see even a semblance of a point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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