Schools told to screen students for vapes

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PUBLISHED: 8 Apr 2024 at 05: 01

Schools told to screen students for vapes
In a business in Bangkok, you can find e-cigarette wet bottles in a variety of flavors. They were afterwards seized by the Customs Department, as electronic- cigarettes are outlawed in Thailand. The Customs Department

The Office of the Basic Education Commission ( Obec) will impose strict measures, such as searches of personal belongings, to crack down on vapes in schools following a” surge” in the number of students using them.

Thee Pawangkanan, assistant director- general of Obec, said the government is concerned that pupils aged 13–15 are extremely using e- smokes.

He claimed that first-graders between the ages of 6 and 7 have also experienced vaping, noting that they are regarded as the youngest cigarettes.

Mr. Thee claimed that this piqued the government, but Obec Secretary-General Thanu Wongjinda assigned him to address the issue along with Education Minister Permpoon Chidchob, Deputy Minister of Education Surasak Phancharoenworakul, and Obec Secretary-General Thanu Wongjinda.

Obec, he said, will create stringent measures to suppress the difficulty by increasing knowledge of the dangers of electronic- cigarettes among teachers, students and parents.

Vapes are designed to resemble comic character figures and smell fruity, he claimed, which had fool parents, teachers, and students into believing they are safe to use.

Cigarettes can seriously harm the breathing, he continued, according to records.

He said,” We are very concerned and would like to ask the parents to assist us in looking into the matter.”

We would like the kids to be aware of the risks associated with using standard smoking or e-cigarettes, he said.

According to him, one of the steps that Obec is looking to use is to conduct searches of pupils ‘ bags before entering schools to check for unlawful and incorrect items, including e-cigarettes.

Beginning on May 15, the first day of the fresh phrase, he said the restrictions may apply to schools to prevent dangerous and illegal products.

However, Phantong Loykulnanta, deputy director on duty set management and development at the Customs Department, on Sunday&nbsp, said the department arrested a total of 211 smugglers of cigarettes and vapes for 34.11 million baht in total into the country between March 1 and April 5.

According to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin’s policy against the smuggling of cigarettes and vapes into the country, which remains a problem, he claimed he has told the Customs Department’s officers to be strict about punishing those who violate the law.