{"id":23646,"date":"2017-08-18T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=23646"},"modified":"2017-08-18T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:50:29","slug":"brits-thailand-face-10-years-prison-vaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/18\/brits-thailand-face-10-years-prison-vaping\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits In Thailand Could Face 10 Years In Prison For Vaping"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A little-known ban on e-cigarettes in Thailand could see those who breach the law face 10 years behind bars.<\/h2>\n<p>Thailand is visited by more than a million British tourists every year, according to the Foreign Office, and the ban, which was introduced in 2014, could see unaware Brits being fined or prosecuted for having a drag.<\/p>\n<p>The South-East Asian country is a popular destination because of its affordability and accessibility but experts warn that visitors should be warned of the law of the country, which has been under military rule since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t bring vaporisers (like e-cigarettes and e-baraku) or refills into\u00a0Thailand,\u201d advises the Foreign Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese items are likely to be confiscated and you could be fined or sent to prison for up to 10 years if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sale or supply of e-cigarettes and similar devices is also banned and you could face a heavy fine or up to five years imprisonment if found guilty. Several British Nationals have been arrested for possession of vaporisers and e-cigarettes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little-known ban on e-cigarettes in Thailand could see those who breach the law face 10 years behind bars. Thailand is visited by more than a million British tourists every year, according to the Foreign Office, and the ban, which was introduced in 2014, could see unaware Brits being fined or prosecuted for having a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":23647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}