Thais spend less on booze

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Published: 14 Feb 2013 at 18.05
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Tougher enforcement of the 2008 Alcohol Beverage Control Act from 2007 to 2011 has resulted in a decrease in consumer expenditure on alcohol of 18 billion baht, an academic forum was told.

The continuous implementation of various anti-alcohol campaigns and the enforcement of the law to reduce access to alcohol resulted in a decrease in public spending on booze from 155 billion baht in 2007 to 137 billion baht in 2011. This meant people reduced their purchases of alcohol, totaling almost 18 billion baht during the five-year span, Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) manager Krisada Ruangareerat revealed on Thursday.

Harmful levels of drinking also tended to be lower, from 9.1% between 2003 and 2004 to 7.3% between 2008 and 2009, he said.

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jpk
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Discussion 7 : 14 Feb 2013 at 23.537
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Walking along the street and seeing all the motorcycle taxiests and taxi drivers drinking their lau kau in bottles of M150, I can only surmise that people haven't started drinking less, they are just drinking cheaper and more potent booze.
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Discussion 6 : 14 Feb 2013 at 21.326
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So, if alcohol is as harmful or more so a drug of addiction as yaa baa, marijuana and most other popular recreational drugs, as the facts in this report and the best scientific evidence show, why is it legal when some others are illegal?

Is there any rational and moral reason for this seeming inconsistency, or is it exactly what it appears: rank hypocrisy with not a shred of reason or justice behind it?
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Discussion 5 : 14 Feb 2013 at 21.305
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Occasional drinking wine or/and on the rocks before sun down by some big shot government's members considered harmless. They cheers and be merried while conducting businesses. They aren't behind the wheels or they will have inactive post personel drives for them.The ordinary people might drink home brew its cheaper. If they don't kill somone else on the road they kill themselve with liver diseases.
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Discussion 4 : 14 Feb 2013 at 20.344
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Really are you having a joke, where do they get these figures from ???? my own personal opinion is it is the same or increased in the last few years, post 3 has said it all, I still see Thais getting drunk and getting in their cars or riding their bikes, so the question I ask is if I can see it why can the police not see it !!!
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Discussion 3 : 14 Feb 2013 at 19.473
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The number of road accidents on New Years holiday increased. What exactly were all the drunk drivers drinking?
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Discussion 2 : 14 Feb 2013 at 19.422
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Just think how much it would decrease and how many fewer accidents there would be if current laws were actually enforced.
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Discussion 1 : 14 Feb 2013 at 19.231
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When laws are enforced results happen.
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