Results 1-6 of 6 for smoking speaker:Peter Atkinson

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] (29 Apr 2002)

Mr Peter Atkinson: ...not invited to write an article for The Guardian on that subject. I agreed with a considerable amount of what the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Judy Mallaber) said about why young people take up smoking. She had some very intelligent ideas about that, but she concluded by saying that young people could be influenced by advertising. That gets to the nub of what the Opposition are talking...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] (29 Apr 2002)

Mr Peter Atkinson: I agree that the recent problem is the increase in the number of young people who smoke. The increase in other parts of society, such as among manual workers and those on lower incomes, has also been referred to. Much of that increase, which was mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, South (Richard Ottaway) and others, relates to the smuggling of tobacco. The right hon. Member...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (22 Jan 2001)

Mr Peter Atkinson: ...around the hon. Gentleman, because although the Government may not know how the ban will affect cigarette consumption, as sure as eggs is eggs they will know how many Labour party supporters smoke. The hon. Gentleman's remarks, although honest, will not be well received by the Labour party. I was struck by a remark made by the hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron). He accused the...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (22 Jan 2001)

Mr Peter Atkinson: ...would have heard my hon. Friend the Member for Worthing, West (Mr. Bottomley) make an excellent speech, explaining precisely why—he certainly convinced me—he believes young people start smoking. They start smoking not because of advertising but because of peer pressure and their friends' behaviour. There are many reasons why they start smoking, as my hon. Friend said in an...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (22 Jan 2001)

Mr Peter Atkinson: ...me—is to encourage brand loyalty. I am neither a market research expert nor an advertising person, but I suspect that the claims of such people are as valid as those made by the militant anti-smoking lobby. I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow), who looks as though he wants to intervene.

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (22 Jan 2001)

Mr Peter Atkinson: ...made more money than they had before because people stopped bringing bootleg products over the border from the United States. I have another point to make about how the proposed ban will affect smoking habits. It can be argued that, because advertising aims to identify brands and make individual brands popular, the brands advertised are often premium brands that many young people like to...