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Pattaya Beach a big ashtray
Vittaya Yoondorn
Signs warning against throwing cigarette butts on Pattaya Beach
aren’t doing much to deter smokers from using the shoreline as one big
ashtray.
The signs warn of fines up to 2,000 baht for butting out on the beach,
but no one actually enforces the law. Smokers apparently know that and
have shown to fear in tossing their used fags to the curb.
Beach vendors complain cigarette butts are making their way into the
drainage system, contributing to the city’s chronic flooding problem.
It’s up to police and municipal enforcement officers to put some teeth
into the anti-littering campaign.
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