e-smoking in Thailand?

[Kitabz]

Does anyone have any experience with e-smoking in Thailand and/or the flight to and from there?

When I first started this lark I never gave it a second thought but on reading about the situation on Singapore and also reflecting on the harshness of some of the drug laws in the Far East, I'm starting to worry about taking them with me at all. If I don't then I have a bit of a problem since I really don't want to go back to analogs. Worst case I could take the Nicorette inhaler I suppose but it's pretty yuk and pathetic IMHO.

Advice appreciated...

[jimmy2pax]

I'll bump this for you as I'll be going to Thailand in a couple of months and would also like to know how others have got on.

:-)

[Denni]

To my knowledge they are banned in Thailand, but I can't find the relevant link.

[dc2k08]

I asked some members of a Thai forum in a thread I had started what the status was on electronic cigarettes and they said they were not banned but were worried for their survival. you can check out that thread here:
hi guys, anyone speak english here ?

The forum is still active so I presume they are still available. It's all in thai so it's hard to make out what they're saying. I'll start a new thread there and ask them what the best course of action a tourist could take to take to enjoy a vaping good time.

edit: I started a thread here:
Travelling to thailand with e-cigarette..need advice

It isn't a very busy forum but you should get a response within 1-2 days.

[Kitabz]

I asked some members of a Thai forum in a thread I had started what the status was on electronic cigarettes and they said they were not banned but were worried for their survival. you can check out that thread here:
hi guys, anyone speak english here ?

The forum is still active so I presume they are still available. It's all in thai so it's hard to make out what they're saying. I'll start a new thread there and ask them what the best course of action a tourist could take to take to enjoy a vaping good time.

edit: I started a thread here:
Travelling to thailand with e-cigarette..need advice

It isn't a very busy forum but you should get a response within 1-2 days.

Thanks so much for doing that - a Thai e-cig forum, who'd have guessed (not me that's for sure) - I can see a reply, seems like it's okay at the moment. I think I'll just take the one (in case it gets confiscated) and just enough juice for the time I'll be there. Ordinarily I'd take everything which at this rate will be about a suitcase-full (note to self: stop buying stuff)

[dc2k08]

no worries. glad you got a response. you should be alright so.

ack, that website is loading slowly right now. I can't even get it to open. same for you?

[Kitabz]

no worries. glad you got a response. you should be alright so.

ack, that website is loading slowly right now. I can't even get it to open. same for you?

Seems okay now (no further responses)

[K-Sound Krew]

I sent the link to my wife, who speaks Thai
I'll have her look into it

I have braved the flight to Thailand 3x
Before my strategy was to get drunk and sleep as much as possable
very bad exp.

I was looking forward to go armed with an ecig for my next time, but I heard it was already banned over there

I'll keep this post updated

[Kitabz]

I sent the link to my wife, who speaks Thai
I'll have her look into it

I have braved the flight to Thailand 3x
Before my strategy was to get drunk and sleep as much as possable
very bad exp.

I was looking forward to go armed with an ecig for my next time, but I heard it was already banned over there

I'll keep this post updated

Thanks for forwarding the link to your wife, hope to hear good news...

I'm normally not too bad on long haul flights, I just go into "can't smoke mode" and switch off (wish I could do that in real life).

I start to get twitchy the nearer it gets to landing time which, now-a-days is just so painful since you can't normally smoke until past immigration, past the baggage, past customs, past the exit and then 50 meters away from the front door. Pure torture. I'm sure that airport policy makers are secretly sadists. If I do try to take an e-cig with me, at least I can quietly have a puff in the toilets either on the flight or after landing.

I'm not going for a couple of months but I'm already starting to worry about it!

[K-Sound Krew]

I don't know about the new airport, but the old airport had a smoking station as soon as you got off the plane

The first year I had a 26hr flight with a lay over in Japan, that was murder

but the flight from london wasn't that bad, the only thing is the plane will be crowded because they also put people going to new zealand on that flight

I had another bad experience going home one time, there was a whole group of yuppies that went to asia to adopt kids, oh the horror
A bunch of rich dumb white people with their new infants, some of them had picked up two kids, I came very close to kicking people in the head
I'm sure you can imagine, being stuck in a crowded place, 50 baby's screaming, inefectual parents without skills, 18 hrs non stop with no place to hide