The Public Health Ministry plans to raise the legal age for buying cigarettes from 18 years old to 20 years old. The decision was reached during the meeting of the National Cigarette Control Committee Wednesday. The meeting was chaired by Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanavisit. The move was seen as the toughest measure so far […]
BANGKOK, 3 October 2010 (NNT) – The Thai Health Promotion Institute (THPI) indicates that nicotine content inside the Suvarnabhumi International Airport is still high, asking the Airport of Thailand (AOT) to make Suvarnabhumi 100% smoke-free. The Institute is currently asking the Public Health Ministry to set up rules to make the airport completely free from […]
A strict policy will come into effect at the massive Weekend Market next month, along with a crackdown on alcohol sales Bangkok’s world-famous Chatuchak Weekend Market will be under a strict non-smoking policy from October 1, reports the National News Bureau of Thailand. Puff-happy offenders will pay a maximum fine of 2,000 baht. This is […]
Littering is against the law and offenders should be punished, but some say the capital city’s inspectors are perhaps a little too vigilant Many foreign tourists in Bangkok have complained they have been “burned” after being fined for littering by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s (BMA) inspectors. An investigation by a Spectrum team lasting several weeks […]
A B.C. man — known for lighting a cigarette off the Olympic torch earlier this year — has reportedly died after falling from a train in Thailand. Media reports from indicate Jordan Ashley Krull died after falling from a train in Ratchaburi province 80 kilometres from Bangkok Tuesday. A Facebook tribute page to Krull calls […]
Bangkok – Hundreds of Thais on Wednesday protested outside a tobacco industry congress in Bangkok aimed at expanding cigarette consumption in Asia, already the fastest-growing market for tobacco products. “We would like the world to see we are opposed to the tobacco industry using Thailand as a base to promote and expand its markets in […]
Anyone who has ever tried to give up smoking will know just how difficult it can be. Recently, smoking was banned in bars all over Thailand including the popular resorts of Krabi and Samui in an effort to get smokers to quit. However, this act seems to…
