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Smoking at home to be banned
Online Reporters, Published on 21/06/2019
» A law prohibiting smoking at home will come into effect on Aug 20 in a bid to reduce deaths caused by second-hand smoke.
Focus on cancer causes
News, Postbag, Published on 22/10/2018
» Re: "Researchers raise hopes for 'affordable' anti-cancer drug", (BP, Oct 20).
Ciggies set for 2 baht price hike
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/10/2018
» Anti-smoking advocacy groups are rallying behind the government's plan to hike cigarette prices by 2 baht a pack and use the new profits as contributions to the "gold card" universal health insurance scheme.
Spitting image
News, Published on 04/08/2018
» Re: "Taking Cambodia's bogus election to task", (Opinion, Aug 3).
Duterte's latest war - on loitering - snares Philippine poor
Reuters, Published on 24/07/2018
» MANILA: Each night, police in teams of about a dozen fan out across the most rundown areas of the Philippine capital, rounding up slum-dwellers who linger in the streets, or teenagers who play in makeshift computer gaming shops.
Anti-smoking push eyes youth
News, Published on 10/07/2018
» Thailand has seen a decline in smokers and efforts are being made to reduce the number of new smokers, a conference was told yesterday.
High hopes
Life, Published on 11/06/2018
» Soon a plot of cannabis will be planted in a government field -- for research, of course, and perhaps a long overdue one.
Bad marketing
News, Postbag, Published on 24/02/2018
» How could all five markets at the Seri Villa housing estate, Prawet, have been operating illegally, with some violating the building code as well? The markets have been operating in plain sight for years, with customers jamming streets with parked cars. BMA governor Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang is to be praised for quickly checking on the Prawet markets and vowing to review all 364 markets in Bangkok.
Changing the image of 'evil'
Business, Published on 03/02/2018
» As far as the masses are concerned, tobacco companies are evil. This has not thrown off the tobacco industry's efforts to wage an incarnate fight for consumers' and regulators' hearts at least since 1964, when the surgeon-general of the US declared that cigarettes had a detrimental effect on health.
No need for a rush on bans
News, Editorial, Published on 15/01/2018
» While most people agree with the statement that we live in a complicated world, a huge number argue for what they claim to be simple solutions. Nowhere is this more common than in addressing criminal, anti-social or harmful goods and behaviour. Some people favour strict laws that ban goods and behaviour. But bans almost never result in completely halting their target. In most cases, regulation beats bans hands down.