Relaxing Saturday. Today I have “good news from England” for you. Last Tuesday (April 16), the British House of Representatives Voted to approve an overwhelming 383 to 73 votes from government and opposition MPs in the second session of the “Smoke-Free Generation Bill” which covers both cigarettes and e-cigarettes to reduce the number of deaths from smoking. cigarette and serious diseases caused by cigarettes which is currently a burden on the budget of the “National Health Service” (National Health Service). This draft law is currently being considered by the “Upper House” or “House of Lords”. If approved, it will come into force. law At the end of this year when Smoke-free era laws effective Modern British children will not You can buy cigarettes and smoke them for the rest of your life. Starting from people in this generation onwards, British Government Tobacco and E-Cigarette Act Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is the strictest anti-smoking law in the world. When the law comes into force, the sale of tobacco products such as cigarettes and e-cigarettes to children and young people under the age of 18 or children who Born after 1 January 2013 is considered illegal in England and Wales, as well as Scotland and Northern Ireland. It is expected that the same law will apply. If caught in person, you will be fined 100 pounds or 125 dollars, more than 4,500 baht. If you go to court, you may be fined as high as 2,500 pounds or 3,118 dollars, approximately 115,000 baht. Currently, the law England sets minimum age for purchasing tobacco products. and e-cigarettes is 18 years old. This new law sets a new minimum age from 2027 onwards to increase by 1 year per year until the entire population of the country is reached. This means that children born after 1 January 2013 onwards will not be able to buy them. Cigarette products can last for the rest of their lives. The British government estimates that No one from every new generation will smoke from 2040 onwards. Draft smoke-free era law. of this edition of England Got inspired From New Zealand’s cigarette sales ban which prohibits the sale of cigarettes to children and youth born after the beginning of 2023. This New Zealand law has already passed Parliament. It will come into effect in July 2024, but has been canceled by the new New Zealand government. New Zealand’s new Prime Minister who repealed the nation’s good laws is this person. Mr. Christopher Laxon, who recently flew in as a guest of the Thai government and is signed as “Strategic Partnership” Today, more than 150 countries around the world are tightening their smoking laws. In 2020, Paraguay was the last country to South America that passed a law prohibiting smoking You can smoke only outdoors where there aren’t many people around. Last year, 2023, Mexico enacted the strictest smoking ban in the world. It bans smoking in all public places, beaches, hotels, offices, restaurants. You can smoke only in your own home. Information from The British Office for National Statistics states that in 2022 there were 6.4 million smokers in England, much less than Thailand. As a result, 64,000 people died from cigarettes, 1 in 4 died from cancer. But public health information indicates that Up to 80,000 people die each year from cigarettes. British government’s new cigarette ban law. It is expected that smoking will help prevent up to 470,000 people by the end of this century from heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, etc. Today, the world is enacting laws to quit smoking. and e-cigarettes because they are a serious danger to people’s health, but there is news that the Commission is studying laws and measures to control e-cigarettes. There are plans to go see the work. Production and distribution of electronic cigarettes in China, which Chinese electronic cigarettes There are many things illegally sold into Thailand. The other day I just picked up a big lot. We’ve come a long way. Controlling the sale of cigarettes and electronic cigarettes to protect the health of Thai people Hopefully politicians will not be influenced by international cigarette companies again. “Wind Change direction.” Click to read the column. Additional “Thailand Notes”
