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RE: Not allowed to advertise booze on TV in Thailand so now everyone makes soda water
Very interesting ! Do you know when it happened? I went in Thailand 2 years ago and it seems to me that there were still / already ads on alcohol.
They even had t-shirts with the logo of the typical beer !
I'm waiting for you the next post!
The restrictions were just for TV advertisements. The government has knee-jerk reactions to various things and then makes "sweeping changes" such as banning the advertisement of these things altogether including to arrest people for having social media posts with a beer in a picture. They normally realize the scope of it is really impossible after about a month and then all of us just groan that it was an excuse for the corrupt police force to steal money from business owners. However, whenever something like this happens it normally ends up getting reverted a few months later.
The ban on TV advertising of alcohol is still there though. All the companies can advertise their products in sporting event signs and what not, but in order to do so they needed to have a non-alcohol product as well... which is why all of them do now.
yes that's crazy !