Be wary of discarded cigarette ends at stations and airport tax-free shops in Thailand – officials are on the take and may demand large sums for trumped-up charges.
Anaesthetist Nurse Nils Georgsen has never smoked in his life – nonetheless officials at non-smoking Siam station demanded 10,000 baht (EUR 206) to release him, after accusing him of having being the owner of a cigarette butt lying on the platform.


























