Smoking cost the country more than 50 billion baht a year

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B50bn economic loss from smoking

Published: 5 Mar 2013 at 16.36
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Death and disease caused by smoking costs the country over 50 billion baht each year, according to the Tobacco Control Research and Knowledge Management Centre.

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Kanitta Bundhamcharoen, of the International Health Policy Programme Thailand, said on Tuesday the statistics were clear - the economic loss as a result of premature death from smoking each year was around 40.5 billion baht - comprising medical expenses and lost productivity.

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kiwibkk
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Discussion 16 : 07 Mar 2013 at 06.1116
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I challenge the Bangkok Post to print the facts about Thailand's income from the tax on the sale of smokes! what is the true yearly income from tax!!
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Discussion 15 : 06 Mar 2013 at 19.0015
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I, and all, every one, of my smoking friends do not wish to irritate or up set others around us and often forgo smoking or are herded into dark, unair conditioned areas to smoke. A quick poll indicated that none had cancer or any smoking friends who had it. As an expert. ( 78 yrs old,smoking for 65 yrs and not a cough ) I join them. My father did die of a smoking "related" condition - at age 89 He was lighting a cigarette and hit by a bus !
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Discussion 14 : 06 Mar 2013 at 17.5714
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I think it is amazing how you can quote simple facts about how much tax there is on smokes and people dislike what you say!!! sorry if you dislike the truth!
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Discussion 13 : 06 Mar 2013 at 06.2313
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here is a further thought for you if you smoke a "better" brand, to 68 baht a pack, better quality so costs more to make, so from 68 baht that must be over 50 baht tax, 30 years x 365 days x 50 baht = 547,500 baht in 30 years of smoking based on today's tax rate. (most smokers start young and dont die before they are 55)start at 15 smoke till you are 65 thats 50 years of smoking.

Lets run that one, 50 years x 365 days x 50 baht tax = 912,500 baht tax paid, put that man in a private room and look after him very well, he has paid for the bed and treatment! (I wont go into compounding interest over the 50 years)I paid my dues time after time!
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Discussion 12 : 06 Mar 2013 at 06.0612
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interesting story but missing some facts!!

The one fact that does not seem to be mentioned is how much smoking makes the country in Tax!
now if I can cross the border and buy a carton of cheap smokes for 70 baht, that makes is 7 baht per pack, that pack has been made in Vietnam then shipped across Laos to be sold in a shop that makes profit.
I smoke Thai smokes, they cost me 38 baht a packet, now this shows the level of tax ect I think it would be save to say that there is more than 25 baht tax per packet.
Now the average smoker takes 30 years to start having issues, 30 years x 365 days x 25 baht = 273,750 baht...... how many smokers he
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Discussion 11 : 06 Mar 2013 at 02.4611
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Nonsense promoted by an out moded accounting system. Officials, mainly medical,apparently "beating a dead horse" and don't read JAMA, ( Journal Of The American Medical Association )or The Lancet, ( ditto for the UK ), nor do they pay any attention to WHO, ( The World Health Organization), who all agree that obesity causes far more medical/financial problems - can't use age old medical training nor tax "fatties" - yet.
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Discussion 10 : 06 Mar 2013 at 01.3910
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I have often wondered how they sort out just tobacco disease from other disease that produce the same effects. How they sort out silacosis, black lung, pollution and all those other causes. I can't trust how they go about it. Quite a bit of fraud.
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Discussion 9 : 05 Mar 2013 at 22.429
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Many farang in Thailand don't care, like to smoke everywhere and share secondhand with everyone.
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Discussion 8 : 05 Mar 2013 at 21.548
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Alcool kills a lot more people each year...
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Discussion 7 : 05 Mar 2013 at 20.237
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Thailand is doing what the Australian government has already done. Plain brown cigarette packages with no advertising, graphic photos of cancer victims are having an affect on the smoking public, not to mention approx. 450THB / packet. The Australian government has been active in confronting the tobacco companies not only in the courts, but also at the sales point, and they are winning! Some smokers are asking if the companies have changed their tobacco as the the cigarettes are tasting different in the new packaging. No changes made, just the minds perception!
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