Dry Season: Health dept asks Thais to kick booze for 3-month Buddhist Lent

Photo: Masroor Hamid/Flickr
Photo: Masroor Hamid/Flickr

Two public health groups have asked Thais to quit the sauce for Buddhist Lent, a three-month season that begins Sunday.

The Stop Drink Network and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation want mass public participation in the booze-free initiative, which will not include any happy hours, late-night clubbing, or drunken karaoke sessions. Instead, expect early nights, extra cash, and no hangovers.

The foundations suggest using the time that you would have spent getting wasted on doing good deeds, reported Thai News Bureau.

The two groups claim that the number of people participating in these dry seasons is on the rise. They claim that 80 percent of survey respondents take part in the no-booze months.

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