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[moe666]

Burn, Burn it all.

[justSumGai]

You want to see real riots? let em try to ban or curtail either. NOT content to run the whole country and keep the majority stupid and poor (schools that don't teach, good business gigs need connections) they want the largest group in the country to what? sit and watch rice grow? What's next? tax on babies?
And of course the elites will have access to all the booze and smokes they can want.

[Tracechain]

wengesot, on 2010-07-30 05:09:27, said:

bubba, on 2010-07-29 10:39:57, said:

By "international control centre", perhaps they mean that they will be coordinating with Saudi Arabia regarding some helpful procedures and  standards regarding "prevention and control of alcohol consumption" in Thailand?

I'm sure the USA could also provide them with some advice and background regarding how well prohibition worked there when they tried that.

It doesn't work in Saudi, when I was last there you could buy 1 1/2 litres of pure alcohol (sediki)  for 150 Riyals (about 25 GBP or 37 USD) if you knew a contact. Other than that we used to make our own beer and wine from grape juice, non alcoholic beer and bakers yeast.
My wife here tells me that her father used to distil his own spirits before Laokow became cheaply available. There is no way they can restrict alcohol because it is in the Thai culture and they will adapt to feed their addiction.

Yea, my grandparents make a small fortune during the prohibition days making and running non-bonded moonshine.  Called 'shine' for short it can be brewed to come out as pure grain alcohol.  Bottom line is that folks will drink anything and there is allways someone there who will provide.  Now, this doesn't solve any problems, just thought I would add this little tid-bit of information.  Next round please....

[Puccini]

Are current regulations not designed to increase the sale, and presumably also the consumption, of alcohol? I understand that for a specific period in the afternoon you are not allowed to buy only one bottle of wine or beer in a retail outlet, you must buy a certain minimum quantity. What are the exact details of this campaign to increase the sale of alcoholic beverages? Is it between 2 and 4 pm, minimum 20 litres?

[rogercw]

Press releases like this really do highlight the naivety of Thai politics.  First, how do you legislate on how much people drink and smoke.  Sure you can reduce the opportunity of doing so by banning smoking in designated areas and forbidding the sale of alcohol on public/religious holidays, but that is a mere drop in the ocean.  Why not raise the taxes on cigarettes by say 200%?  That would send shock waves through the cigarette smoking community and not only encourage them to stop and improve their health, but improve the health of those around them who don't indulge:bah:.  As for trying to reduce the consumption of alcohol - this is nigh on impossible and seems to have become a world wide issue.  I think the Government would be far better employed in making sure that drivers have driving licences, kids of 10 years of age are not riding motor bikes along the main roads,  people are wearing crash helmets when riding motor bikes and they drive down the right side of the road.  That would save a huge cost on medical bills!


   Raise the price of cigarettes by 200 percent? Smugglers from Cambodia or Laos would bring truckloads into Thailand and zero taxes would be collected.

[cup-O-coffee]

"Prohibition could never succeed in the world in which we live. It simply  is not possible. For it to succeed, people would have to be infallible,  unable to abuse their own powers, and unable to defy the law. However,  we, as human beings, are altogether incredibly fallible. We all rebel  against something at some point. We all have our weaknesses. We all have  our own sense of justice and fairness. There is simply no reason to ban  alcohol, when any other substance could cause as much damage as it has,  if in the hands of the wrong people."

This is typical Thai mentality, where they refuse to use other country's failures as a lesson in wisdom.

Just type into GOOGLE "the failure of prohibition" and the lessons are vast.

Will the Thai people ever learn, before they are passed up by every nation in the world, and become the lowest ranked nation in every positive thing; and the highest ranked nation in every negative thing?

This "I am better than you, and I will jolly well do it my own way" culture must be swept aside. Instead, Thailand can still save itself if it were to take a keen interest in the mental and behavioral shaping of the minds of their future generations, who will some day be running this country:

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Literacy of 30,000 third graders substandard
...Director of the Bureau, Dr Benjaluck Namfa, said the 2009 national  assessment has indicated that the ability to read and write of more than  30,000 third-grade students is below the national standard. The figure,  however, showed a little improvement, given the assessment conducted  last year found that 50,000 students were unable to read or write well  enough to express themselves.

The chaotic mentality stupefies the imagination.