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Loung Steeb
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...since I quit smoking....I'm down to two packs a day..
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Posted on: 2:14 pm on June 21, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated Wednesday 27 June 2007 :-
Duty-free cigarettes next target
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Cigarettes and tobacco products will not be available in duty-free shops worldwide if a new anti-smoking protocol proposed by Thailand is approved in principle at an international convention to be held in Bangkok later this month.
Public Health Minister Mongkol na Songkhla said yesterday that approval by the Ministerial Committee of the 2nd Framework Convention on Tobacco Protocol would make cigarettes and tobacco products sold in duty-free shops around the world subject to customs duty.
The proposal also bars international advertising of cigarettes on online media and local visual media, including billboard displays or through promotional campaigns or sponsorship events. As a result, websites featuring or advertising cigarettes will be blocked - in Thailand.
All conditions will be enforced globally if the protocol is approved by the 161-country committee during its meeting from June 30 to July 6, and eventually passed by the so-called Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Thailand signed the convention in June 2003 and ratified it in November 2004.
The Bt10-million Convention will see 600-800 participants from member countries. Thailand, led by Dr Hathai Chitanont, chairman of the Thailand Health Promotion institute, will lead 10 countries from Southeast Asia.
Thailand has been recognised for its strict measures on anti-smoking campaigns and tobacco control.
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Posted on: 3:33 am on June 27, 2007
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Mel Gibson
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Loung Steeb,, Was talking to my mate the other day,, he just got ouit of hospital.
Mate how's it going ??? Mel,,,gasp gasp,, I used to smoke 2 packets of cigarettes a day,, but the bastards just cut my right lung out,,,, I'm down to one pack a day.
Mel.
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Posted on: 9:32 pm on June 27, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Friday 7 September 2007 :-
Smoke-free nightspots 'attract more clients'
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Smoke-free restaurants, pubs and bars attract more customers, not fewer, particularly families and white-collar workers, a senior disease control official said yesterday. Clean air was an attraction for health-conscious customers, the department's deputy director-general Seree Hongyok told the third public hearing on proposed legislation to extend the smoking ban to entertainment venues.
The hearings are intended to gauge the views of business operators, academics, grassroots agencies, youth and media groups in 14 central provinces.
The bill, when promulgated, would affect more than 6,500 entertainment places throughout the country, he said.
The department is pushing to extend the scope of the Non-Smokers Health Protection Act.
In January 2003, smoking was banned in just about every indoor public place, including air-conditioned restaurants, public buses, malls, train stations, government buildings, museums, schools, airports, libraries, indoor stadiums, banks and public offices.
Last year it was extended to other public places such as temples, theatres and air-conditioned areas.
Mr Seree told yesterday's hearing that the department wanted to provide non-smokers attending nightspots with the same level of protection against second-hand smoke as was found in other countries such as France, Italy, Spain, New Zealand and Hong Kong, to name a few.
The department also planned to ban the sale of fruit- and chocolate-flavoured cigarettes and require a smoke-free zone in non-air-conditioned restaurants.
Songsak Wattanapoon, who runs the 1,000-seat Chiang Mai Brew House, said there was no noticeable drop in clientele since the smoking prohibition was first introduced in 2003.
Providing good quality food, service, shows and drinks was the best way to keep customers coming back, he said.
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Posted on: 2:42 am on Sep. 7, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated Tuesday 11 September 2007 :-
Smoking ban due soon
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Smoking will soon be banned in night entertainment venues, once a new Health Ministry regulation takes effect, a seminar in Bangkok was told yesterday.
But Dr Seri Hongyok, a deputy head of the Department of Disease Control, said patrons of karaoke bars, pubs, nightclubs and cafes would still be allowed to smoke in designated areas.
"Smoking will be barred only in air-conditioned areas or in other public places where non-smokers are."
The department would enforce a regulation under which violators would face fines up to Bt20,000.
He said there were now 10 countries that impose no-smoking rules in night entertainment venues.
Seri said the rule was needed to cope with new marketing strategies employed by tobacco companies to lure more young people to smoke, as there were about 200,000 new smokers every year.
A study by the department found the number of woman smokers aged 15-24 had risen to third place on a top-10 ranking of smokers in Thailand, he said.
The number of night entertainment venues, meanwhile, has risen to 6,853 last year from 5,249 in 2005.
Songsak Watthanaphoon, owner of a popular venue in Chiang Mai, said his premises imposed a ban on smoking three years ago and had won praise from customers with young friends or children. Smoking customers had suffered minimally, he said.
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Posted on: 11:29 pm on Sep. 10, 2007
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ThaidUp
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The sooner the better. Call it what it is "drug abuse" and is the only drug of which another person doing it forces their drug upon you. I personnally do not care if a person gets smashed on alcohol or snorts lines off of the bar tables, but a person smoking is forcing you to breathe his smoke exhaust and share in his drug habit. I mean you go into places like "Bed" with its lack of good ventalation and inadequate air conditioning and yours eyes water the cigerette smoke is so thick. Let smokers take part of their drug habit outside or designated sealed smoking rooms.
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Posted on: 11:48 pm on Sep. 10, 2007
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Mel Gibson
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ThaidUp,, Be serious.
Are you suggesting that the smokers hit you over the head and tie you up so as to force you to breath the smoke,,, or are you just saying you choose not to walk away.
What a joke.
Mel.
P.S I agree ther should be smoking and non smoking bars, so each can be happy.
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Posted on: 6:19 am on Sep. 12, 2007
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Loung Steeb
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quoto: I agree ther should be smoking and non smoking bars, so each can be happy.
are we still taking about cigs??
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Posted on: 12:43 pm on Sep. 12, 2007
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Mel Gibson
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LS,, I guess there should be 4 types of bars,, smoking for smokers, smoking for non-smokers, non=smoking for smokers and non-smoking for non-smokers,,,,,
Mel
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Posted on: 9:21 pm on Sep. 13, 2007
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thailien
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I'm still waiting to see a real non-smoking nightlife venue in Thailand. If I ever do, I will jump for joy, spend lots of money there, return often, leave big tips, compliment the owners, and tell all my friends (who are all non-smokers and hate other people's smoke as much as I do.)
So far, most aircon restaurants (except for those that choose to label themselves as bars and/or pubs so they can loophole through the law) and small massage parlors have been my smoke-free refuges. I sincerely hope that large massage parlors (which are mostly now breaking the law as I understand it--tho kudos must go to Nataree Massage for upholding the law and allowing everyone the right to breathe freely in their lounge area) will soon kick the nicotine addicts outside where they belong until they can finish their latest cigarettes.
It's amazing to me how the cigarette addiction seems to be almost entirely a guy problem in Thailand and other Asian countries. Why are the women so much more drug-free? Is it that they have less money to burn up on cigarettes, or that their desire to stay beautiful helps them refrain from the ugly habit of smoking, or that they are just smarter than the guys?
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Posted on: 11:13 am on Oct. 6, 2007
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