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Thailand: planning ahead

Thai Health Promotion Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand; stephen@thaihealth.or.th

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Last year, 2006, ended with new restrictions on smoking in public places in Thailand, including in transport stations, public parks, at bus stops and in telephone booths. Although there are some places where smoking is still permitted, 36 specific types of location have had smoking prohibited or restricted. There has been heightened activity for smoke-free places through world no tobacco day and the second conference (COP 2) of the parties of the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) took place in Bangkok in the summer. Thailand's Dr Hatai Chitanondh was selected as the new conference president to preside over COP 3, to be held in South Africa in 2008.

Despite impressive achievements in 2006 and 2007, next year promises new opportunities, with smoking cessation and tobacco control research the areas likely to get special attention. While Thailand has made rapid tobacco control progress through legislation and regulatory policies, it . . . [Full text of this article]