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IBFarang
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Quote: from PussyLover 69 on 4:15 pm on May 30, 2007
The answer is "No" because blowjobs is NOT cancerous or dangerous to your health as your 'pipe' does not contain nicotine or tar......
So, carry on blowjobbing !
The pipe might not contain nicotine or tar, but might still be cancerous….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3485158.stm
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Posted on: 8:09 pm on May 30, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Thursday 31 May 2007 :-
Stubbing out smoking - Health agencies are pushing to expand smoke-free zones to bars and even private homes
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Lighting up a cigarette while savouring your pint could soon become a thing of the past in Thailand as a campaign for smoke-free entertainment nightspots takes shape.
The move follows the success of a similar scheme in Ireland, which in 2004 became the first country to create smoke-free indoor workplaces and public places, including restaurants, bars and pubs. Hong Kong also imposes smoking bans for some pubs and bars.
For over a decade, Thailand has been successful in campaigning for smoke-free public places such as offices, bus stops, restaurants, hospitals and temples.
Now, state health agencies and anti-smoking advocates are working to expand smoke-free zones to cover night entertainment spots and even private homes.
The move is in accordance with the theme of today's World No Tobacco Day, which campaigns for a 100% smoke-free environment.
However, it is an uphill task, they said.
''People usually regard pubs and bars as drinking and smoking venues, whereas the home is a private place for the family. It's very hard to work on a campaign which requires people to change their attitudes and norms,'' said Prakit Vathesatogkit, secretary-general of the Action on Smoking and Health Foundation.
''However, we have to press ahead with this project because cigarette smoke is very harmful to passive smokers.''
The anti-smoking advocate said he had been pushing the campaign for years. He said pubs and bars were workplaces for many non-smoking staff who end up being exposed to second-hand smoke.
''Despite realising the health hazards of such an environment, most employees do not want to speak up about their plight for fear of losing their jobs,'' he said. ''That's why we have to raise the topic of employees' health protection and promote better working environments.''
There are about 375,706 workplaces registered with the Social Security Office. An estimated 8.5 million people, including employees at entertainment nightspots, work on a regular and temporarily basis.
Dr Prakit said most employees at nightspots were at a high risk of developing health problems due to their continuous exposure to second-hand smoke.
However, these workers lacked social security as they were usually hired on a temporary basis and were underpaid. As a result, this caused long-term health and social burdens for them and society.
According to the World Health Organisation, there is a clear scientific consensus based on hundreds of studies in adults and children showing that cigarette smoke causes serious and fatal illnesses such as heart disease, lung cancer and asthma.
A study by researchers at Mahidol University on second-hand smoke exposure at youth venues in Thailand and Malaysia revealed that exposure levels of workers at bars, pubs, nightclubs and discos were higher than at other places where smoking was allowed.
The mean exposure level of this group was more than 35 times the average annual exposure limit set by the United States Environment Protection Agency.
The study was conducted last year at 150 youth venues in four cities in Thailand and Malaysia using a portable air measurement device to gauge particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 microns or less (PM 2.5). Particles of 2.5 microns or less found in indoor air are mostly due to cigarette smoke.
The research showed these levels could cause asthma and respiratory problems among people exposed to small dust particles both over the short and long term, such as service staff, bartenders, DJs and musicians who work in such venues on a daily basis.
Lakkana Termsirikulchai, director of the Tobacco Control Research and Knowledge Management Centre, said further research on smoking levels at entertainment nightspots in big cities such as Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Ratchasima, Phuket and Songkhla was being conducted. The results are expected to be released next month.
She believed the ongoing studies would help address the need to promote a smoking ban inside night entertainment buildings. Legislation requiring all indoor workplaces and public places to be smoke-free should be enacted, she said. This was one way to ensure universal and equal protection for all, aside from education strategies.
Sman Footrakul, head of the Tobacco and Alcohol Control Bureau, agreed with the proposals, but said a ban on smoking in pubs and bars had not yet been fully implemented in the Tobacco Control Bill because the task was not handled by the health authorities alone.
The issue needed cooperation from other agencies such as the Labour and the Interior ministries to review and amend the labour and entertainment nightspot bills to support a smoking ban in workplaces.
Dr Sman said it would probably have to wait for the elected government until a ban on smoking materialised.
Public Health Minister Mongkol na Songkhla said he was currently too busy working with two controversial projects _ the anti-alcohol campaign and compulsory licensing to override the patents of Aids and heart drugs.
''We have to wait for the right time in a bid to move forward the anti-smoking policy. We can't open battles on all fronts. Otherwise, we may lose the war,'' the minister said.
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Posted on: 10:21 pm on May 30, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Thursday 31 May 2007 :-
Ban on lighting up is popular with the punters
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The Tawandang German Brewery, a nightspot in Rarm Intra on Rama III road, is one of the few popular pubs and restaurants in the city that does not let customers light up. A ban on smoking in pubs is enforced in countries such as Ireland, Norway, Bhutan and some bars in Hong Kong.
Although there is no prospect of a similar law here in Thailand, the publican at Tawandang says the ban is popular with drinkers.
Wanchai Rienkitpinyo, the bar and restaurant manager, said the ban on smoking had been welcomed by customers since Tawandang's opening in September 2005.
''Everybody has reacted positively, which is good for us,'' said Mr Wanchai, a non-smoker.
''Customers first walked in with the expectation that they could smoke in a beer garden but when we explain to them that we have tried to create a smoke-free environment, they don't mind. They even comment that the place has a pleasant smell, not a stale smoky one.''
The smoking ban was a sensitive issue because most people believed they could go to such places to drink and smoke. However, customers could always choose to go somewhere else, said Mr Wanchai.
''There are still many bars nearby where people can smoke if they want,'' he said.
Sunthorn Wichitpanich, who lives in the Rarm Intra area, visits the place with his friends because of its smoke-free policy. ''I am a smoker myself, but I don't mind at all. My friends don't smoke and we wanted to go to some place where we could enjoy ourselves without having to worry about breathing in cigarette smoke,'' he said.
Not only customers but also employees support the smoking ban.
Waitress Pimolpan Niyom, 24, said she quit a job at a nearby nightspot, where she worked for a year, when she became allergic to cigarette smoke.
''Imagine being stuck in a small room filled with smoke seven days a week. Eventually it will affect your health,'' she said. ''Here, I don't have to inhale toxic smoke every day like at my previous workplace. It's better for me and my family,'' she said. ''I want to be healthy, and to watch my kids grow up.''
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Posted on: 10:25 pm on May 30, 2007
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koolbreez
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Sounds like a good time to start negotiating with the tobacco monopoly to start importing chewing tobacco. Sales jumped 30% when California banned smoking.
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Posted on: 1:02 am on May 31, 2007
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david 85260
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Um; PussyLover 69 just who is enforcing all of these new or already ‘on the books’ smoking bans? I certainly have not seen any evidence of it. As a matter of fact I heard a while back that ‘Fantasia’ was the first ever bar in Nana to be ‘smoke free’; when I rushed over to enjoy my smoke free environment I was greeted by a few staff standing around ‘smoking’, but there was a sign on the wall that said- ‘No Smoking’. Also the place was completely devoid of customers. So much for yet another ‘New-Law n LOS’!
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Posted on: 9:31 am on May 31, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated Friday 1 June 2007 :-
Sombre facts for no-smoking day
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While the number of Thai smokers had reached 11 million, another 16 million people were found to be at risk of inhaling secondary smoke in their own homes, Public Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla said yesterday.
On the occasion of World No Smoking Day yesterday, which Thai provinces celebrated with anti-smoking campaigns, Mongkol urged the 1.3 billion smokers world-wide - a third of the adult population - to stop smoking for one day, and said this year's campaign would focus on protecting six billion non-smokers from secondary smoke.
He said smoking caused five million deaths a year and if the problem remained unsolved, 650 million current smokers would die prematurely in the next 14 years.
Mongkol cited a World Health Organisation report of secondary smokers aged 13 to 15, in 132 nations between 1999 and 2005, that found 44 per cent were exposed to cigarette smoke at home and 56 per cent in public places.
Of 11 Southeast and South Asian countries, 11.7 per cent of Thai students smoked compared to India's 4.2 per cent.
A lit cigarette created more than 4,000 toxins, while at least 250 toxins - with more than 60 being cancer triggering substances - were found in secondary smoke, he said.
A Mahidol University study last year found that seven million Thai households - out of 18 million - had smokers. Furthermore, 16 million people - three million being children under five - were at risk of inhaling secondary smoke at home.
A National Statistic Office report last year said there were 11 million smokers aged over 11 and 9.5 million of them said they were addicted to nicotine, Mongkol said.
Men smoked 15 times more than women with an average of 10 cigarettes a day. The average age to begin smoking was 18.
Some 52,000 people died annually from smoking-related diseases, costing Bt44 billion in medical bills.
If all Thai smokers stopped smoking for one day, it would reduce fumes from 100 million cigarettes and save Bt200 million.
From September 28, ministerial regulations will insist that cigar packs carry warning messages with images covering 50 per cent of the packet's surface, said Public Health permanent secretary Prat Boonyawong-virot.
Regulation violators would face up to Bt100,000 in fines.
The Ministry also made 20 ministries and nine offices smoke-free zones and would expand the policy to the provinces this year.
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Posted on: 4:18 am on June 1, 2007
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Mel Gibson
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David85260, you have the choice to leave,, no one is forcing their smoke upon you.
Immediately leave and walk to Sukumvit road to inhale several million cars worth of toxic fumes,, then grab a glass of water from a tap,, ahhh thats full of toxic chemicals best not to drink.
Eat some BBQ chicken from the street cart that is grown with cancer causing hormones.
eat the grass-hoppers that are collected using products similiar to DDT,,,,,,,,,,,
But MOST importantly worry about the cigarette smoke.
ROFLMAO
To get balance back into the discussion,, YES most certainly there is room and a definate financial opportunity to open NON smoking bars,,actually i'd be likely to invest but never visit.
Mel
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Posted on: 10:23 am on June 1, 2007
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Loung Steeb
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Is still okay to smoke inside Bumrugard????
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Posted on: 12:18 pm on June 1, 2007
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erikE
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Smokers went crazy in Norway before we enforced this law. Even I, the nonsmoker, thought this was to regulate the personal choice a little to far.
Now, even most of the smokers thinks this is a very good idea. They happily go outside for a smoke. I have spoken to many of them, and they agree this is a good idea.
The bars and clubs in Norway are like health resorts compared to before, the clothes do not have the smoky flavour when you wake up next morning.
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Posted on: 12:40 pm on June 1, 2007
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DrLove
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In Holland office workers were only allowed to smoke in a special designated room.
After 2 months these rooms were empty because the smokers thought them to be smelly.
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Posted on: 1:11 pm on June 1, 2007
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