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What are permit categories 3 and 4? Presumably these are shops like 7/11? Not bars I hope!!!!

>>>Tougher alcohol, cigarette laws planned

BANGKOK: -- The Finance Ministry will today ask the Cabinet to enforce even stricter regulations on the sale of alcohol and cigarettes. The new rules will make legal the current decree on liquor sales after midnight and prohibit the sale of cigarettes in educational institutions.

The new ministerial regulations will also prohibit the sale of cigarettes in religious places and venues where tobacco-sales licences were previously revoked, a source at Government House said.

The ministry wants alcohol sales for permit categories 3 and 4, which cover alcoholic drinks manufactured inside and outside the country, restricted from 5pm to midnight instead of 5pm to 2am. Also, liquor licences will not beissued to venues near schools or religious places.<<<