{"id":108810,"date":"2017-10-13T14:24:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T08:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=108810"},"modified":"2017-10-13T14:24:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T08:54:44","slug":"no-smoking-on-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/no-smoking-on-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"No smoking on beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thailand is to ban smoking on some of the country\u2019s most popular tourist beaches, with the prospect of up to a year in prison for those caught lighting up, according to reports by local media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-108811 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/82cf1793f381eb6683e40ef57898b7f8.jpg\" alt=\"No smoking on beaches\" width=\"687\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/82cf1793f381eb6683e40ef57898b7f8.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/82cf1793f381eb6683e40ef57898b7f8-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move follows a recent survey of litter on Patong beach, Phuket \u2013 visited by millions of foreign tourists each year \u2013 which found an average of 0.76 cigarette butts per square metre in a sample area, which would amount to 101,058 butts on the 2.5km-long stretch of sand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The survey was undertaken by the country\u2019s department of marine and coastal resources, which described it as a \u201cserious problem\u201d. Discarded cigarette butts accounted for a third of rubbish collected by the department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand is to ban smoking on some of the country\u2019s most popular tourist beaches, with the prospect of up to a year in prison for those caught lighting up, according to reports by local media. The move follows a recent survey of litter on Patong beach, Phuket \u2013 visited by millions of foreign tourists each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29598,2],"tags":[55498,29234,55501,55502,55500,55499,7488],"class_list":["post-108810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-top-stories","tag-ban-smoking","tag-foreign-tourists","tag-marine-and-coastal-resources","tag-no-smoking-on-beaches","tag-patong-beach","tag-popular-tourist-beaches","tag-thailand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Smoking-On-Bondi-copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}