Cambodian Authorities Continue to Crack Down on Shisha Bars
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It's to avoid anyone getting a 'surprise'.Anchor Moy wrote:It's good to know that the govt has priorities. It is more important (and much easier) to target shisha smoking than such triffles as infrastructure, education, health facilities, corruption, illegal logging, pollution, sanitation etc.
I sleep better at night now knowing that a shisha smoker won't attack me and endanger the security of the country with his fumes.
Roads? Hospitals? Schools? The environment? What?
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Another club was busted least night: 'Hang Over Avenue' (near Toul Sleng) which 'had only been open for 2 weeks'. 31 people detained.
http://kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh/article/120983.html
http://kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh/article/120983.html
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Re: Cambodian Authorities Continue to Crack Down on Shisha B
A+ for the club's name, LoL.Rama wrote:Another club was busted least night: 'Hang Over Avenue' (near Toul Sleng) which 'had only been open for 2 weeks'. 31 people detained.
http://kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh/article/120983.html
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Re: Cambodian Authorities Continue to Crack Down on Shisha B
These raids against tobacco smokers is a total waste of everybody's time.
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Re: Cambodian Authorities Continue to Crack Down on Shisha B
Really- just tobacco?
Dam that is disappointing!
Dam that is disappointing!
Re: Cambodian Authorities Continue to Crack Down on Shisha B
Yes. Shishas and e-cigarettes were banned over night because, as the PM expressed it, "you can put drugs in them". Not because they actually contain drugs. It's strictly tobacco and liquid nicotine (in the case of e-cigs).frank lee bent wrote:Really- just tobacco?
Dam that is disappointing!
Any drug smoker can tell you that smoking anything that gives an actual high in a shisha is a waste. The purpose of the shisha is to create as much smoke as possible, often with a fruity taste. This purpose is in direct conflict with drug use, where a user would like as much smoke in his lungs rather than anywhere else. You can smoke drugs in a shisha but it's a big waste because of spill.
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Re: Cambodian Authorities Continue to Crack Down on Shisha B
IMO, the authorities' interest is less in shisha than in eliminating venues where young people gather (especially during daylight/early evening hours) in dark, difficult to monitor places to do young people things - skip school, do drugs, mingle with the opposite sex, hang out, do subversive foreign stuff like shisha, etc. And I think they perceive the activity of doing shisha in the same general category with undesirable foreign holidays like Valentine's Day that are bad influences and are gateways to other more dangerous activities. And any sort of place where they repeatedly find that truants gather eventually draws this sort of attention. This impulse from authorities has also been expressed in previous crackdowns on game halls and internet cafes and in edicts limiting/banning young people in clubs and even bubble tea places during certain hours.
All that said, has shisha also been banned in Thailand now? What was the stated reason there?
All that said, has shisha also been banned in Thailand now? What was the stated reason there?
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Re: Cambodian Authorities Continue to Crack Down on Shisha B
Well, the sale and import of shisha was banned last year, but you wouldn't know it in Pattaya. It's everywhere. It must be cheap too because the bar girls and boys smoke this stuff a lot.
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Re: Cambodian Authorities Continue to Crack Down on Shisha B
yeah you can buy shisha from the market i thing a tube of the charcoal stuff is only a few hundred baht and you get about 10 in them
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Re: Cambodian Authorities Continue to Crack Down on Shisha B
the purpose of the pipe is to COOL the smoke. Now...this might allow one to take bigger drags off it. But it's tobacco. I'd bet that some one or two big guys in raising and selling Cambodian tobacco are mixed in with this too. Fruity crappy stuff to me. Prefer a good English mixture with some Latakia. If the local twits that run tobacco would learn how to make a decent leaf might be happier. The same stuff is everywhere, cut like cig tobacco, they smoke it or "chew" it. Different strengths. Got some of the "best" and it was too damn strong. They know SHIT about curing, it's all over dried.
Once again Cambodia's gov'nt SHOUTS to the world "hey, look how STUPID we are".
regulate it, tax it, tariff it, make a buck you morons.
I think the idea that they don't like the gatherings of yourt has merit too.
Once again Cambodia's gov'nt SHOUTS to the world "hey, look how STUPID we are".
regulate it, tax it, tariff it, make a buck you morons.
I think the idea that they don't like the gatherings of yourt has merit too.
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