Clause 1 - Meaning of ''tobacco advertisement'' and ''tobacco product''
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]
5:30 pm
Ms Yvette Cooper (Parliamentary Secretary (Public Health), Department of Health; Pontefract and Castleford, Labour)
Amendment No. 1 lists several items that would not be capable of being a tobacco advertisement if the amendment were accepted. If the meaning of advertisement were circumscribed as set out under the amendment, there would be a risk of creating gaps in the advertising ban—gaps that could be serious major loopholes. I therefore ask the Committee to reject the amendment.
''Advertisement'' in the Bill carries, in effect, its natural common-sense meaning. That is usual in the law and in the drafting of Bills. The understanding of advertisement is clear in many such cases. I shall run through some examples.