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Article: Thai airport hands out sleeping pills to stressed-out neighbors.(Tourism)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- September 6, 2007
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Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport is distributing sleeping pills to neighboring residents in an effort to lull growing complaints about noise pollution, news reports said recently.
Residents living near the capital's new airport told the Bangkok Post newspaper that home-deliveries of sleeping pills were the airport's latest remedy for communal insomnia and stress caused by the constant overhead jet traffic.
''First they gave us earplugs, then sleeping pills,'' said Thanatos Preeprem, a sleep-deprived Suvarnabhumi neighbor. He and other residents living near the airport said sleeping pills were delivered by a mobile medical unit run by the Airports of ...