Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Alcohol ban in Songkran Festival year 2009

The government’s national alcohol control committee will shortly consider whether to ban the sale of alcohol during the upcoming Songkran Festival in order to reduce the annual carnage caused by road accidents during the traditional Thai New Year holiday. The ban has been proposed in response to the alarming accident figures during the Songkran Festival. For example, from April 11 to 17 last year, a people were killed and injured during the week-long festival. Big cities and towns were the accident champions. Bangkok saw the highest number of accident. Instead, the festival always ends with reports of deaths, especially on the road. Many people lose their lives or are severely injured in accidents that could easily have been avoided. Most of the road accidents occur because drunken revelers get behind the wheel of a car or a motorbike. The authorities have previously tried to reduce the number of accidents caused by drunk driving by attempting to impose a ban on the sale of alcohol at certain places and during certain periods of time. The survey showed that around 57% of shops violated the rules by selling alcohol during the current nation wide ban. The number of violations had increased from the previous year. These figure show that preventative measures will not be effective if people are not fully aware the dangers of drunk driving-both to themselves and to others.

In my opinion, the way to solve this problem is to educate people from an early age about the effects of alcohol and how to be responsible drinkers. If children are able to purchase or obtain alcohol easily, they will be encouraged to start drinking prematurely. Otherwise, regardless of how strict the law is, drinking will always fine ways to get around the rules. So this campaign is effectiveness in Thailand.

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2 comments:

  1. I agree with educate people about alcohol problems when they were child. However, I think drinkers have known about effects of alcohol but they are carelessness. When they drink alcohol, they think they not drunk. I think it's depend on a person.

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  2. Educating people seems it takes long time to soleve the problem, however it's the best way to reduce the crime and accident,I think.

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