E-cigarette liquid bottles of assorted flavours are seen at a retailer in Bangkok, Thailand. (Picture:bangkokpost.com)

Bangkok – Thailand’s Workplace of the Primary Training Fee (Obec) will impose strict measures, equivalent to searches of non-public belongings, to crack down on vapes in colleges following a “surge” within the variety of college students utilizing them.

Thee Pawangkanan, deputy secretary-general of Obec, mentioned the federal government is worried that college students aged 13–15 are more and more utilizing e-cigarettes. There have additionally been circumstances of vape use amongst first graders aged between six and 7 – the youngest people who smoke.

In response to Pawangkanan, vapes are made to appear to be cartoon character figures and so they odor fruity, which may mislead dad and mom, lecturers, and college students into pondering they’re secure to eat. In the meantime, well being data have proven that vapes can severely harm the lungs.

The official pressured that Obec is extremely involved and can ask for the dad and mom’ assist in trying into the matter.

One of many measures Obec is seeking to make use of is searches of scholars’ luggage earlier than they enter lecture rooms to display for unlawful and inappropriate objects, together with e-cigarettes.

Pawangkanan mentioned the measures shall be imposed at colleges beginning on Could 15, the primary day of the brand new time period, to stop harmful and unlawful items in merchandise.

Thailand’s Customs Division on April 7 arrested a complete of 211 smugglers of cigarettes and vapes price 34.11 million THB (930,000 USD) in complete into the nation between March 1 and April 5.

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