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Deeper Dive Thailand: Is vaping safer than smoking cigarettes?
Published on 24/02/2025
» Over the past 20 years, fewer than 100 people worldwide have died from vaping, while more than 100 million people have died from smoking regular cigarettes. In Thailand, the tobacco death toll is 71,000 people each year, and from vaping – zero. So why are cigarettes available in every convenience store, while e-cigarettes are banned?
Three busted for selling e-cigarettes, baraku on Koh Phangan
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 16/02/2025
» SURAT THANI: Police have arrested three women – a Russian, a Myanmar and a Thai – for selling contraband e-cigarettes and baraku in two raids on Koh Phangan.
E-cigarettes, e-baraku now specifically prohibited for students
News, Post Reporters, Published on 07/01/2025
» The cabinet has approved the designation of electronic cigarettes and electronic baraku as prohibited items for students, with four levels of punishment, as proposed by the Ministry of Education..
E-cigarette sales busted
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 20/08/2017
» KANCHANABURI: Police have broken up a major online electronic cigarette sales ring following a raid on a warehouse where smoking kits and accessories worth about 3 million baht were seized.
Online e-cigarette sales ring busted
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 19/08/2017
» KANCHANABURI: Police say they have broken up a major online electronic cigarette sales ring following a raid on a warehouse where about 3 million baht worth of smoking kits and accessories were seized.
Tobacco law loophole under review
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 31/10/2016
» The Excise Department may ask the government to allow the legal import of electronic cigarettes and baraku, which would be taxed like cigarettes, says director-general Somchai Poolsavasdi.
B20m in fake, contraband goods seized in Phuket, Hat Yai
Wichayant Boonchote, Published on 25/12/2015
» Customs officers have seized counterfeit and untaxed products and banned items worth about 20 million baht in Hat Yai district of Songkhla and Phuket.
PM vows to quash illegal ivory trade
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 26/02/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has warned ivory collectors to report the items they own to authorities by the end of April or face severe fines of up to 3 million baht under the new elephant ivory law.
WHO backs new tobacco control law
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 19/02/2015
» The World Health Organisation (WHO) backs the Public Health Ministry’s new tobacco control law, the government says.
Tobacco law set for major revamp
Online Reporters, Published on 18/12/2014
» The Public Health Ministry says it is revamping a 22-year-old tobacco control law to make it more comprehensive so that it covers electronic cigarettes and baraku (shisha) and catch up with marketing strategies of transnational tobacco companies.