Ronnachai Kongsakon, Secretary-General of the National Alliance for Tobacco Free Thailand (NATFT), told journalists Saturday that NATFT and the Action on Smoking and Health Foundation Thailand and the leaders of Buddhism, Christianity and Islam have agreed to jointly launch a campaigning project, aimed to totally ban smoking at religious places of the three main religions in the country, TNA reported on Saturday.
Ronnachai said the pilot project will be started with Wat Prayurawongsawas Woraviharn, a Buddhist temple having won an honourable award from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for best cultural heritage conservation, Santa Cruz Church and Bang Luang Mosque, all are in Bangkok.
Ronnachai stated that the main objective of the project is to inform the public and all religious venues that smoking causes harm to everybody.
According to the NATFT secretary-general, the Thai law also clearly stipulates that violations of smoking at religious places are to be arrested and/or fined 2,000 baht each.
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Publish Date: 17 January 2015 - 14:53
Tehran, Jan 17, IRNA - Leaders of three main religions in Thailand, including Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, have agreed to join forces in imposing a total ban on smoking in their religious places, with violators to be decisively fined up to 2,000 baht each.