Results 1-14 of 14 for smoking speaker:John Austin

Written Answers — Health: Correspondence (8 Mar 2002)

Mr John Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to answer the letters of 19 and 28 December from the hon. Member for Erith and Thamesmead regarding smoking, medical research and the Guildford Depository.

Public Health (6 Jul 1999)

Mr John Austin: ...guidelines, which will reduce the cost to the Exchequer and to the health service, as well as the cost in human suffering, are implemented locally? On his commitment to action and his reference to smoking, given that most Departments, local authorities and private employers have policies on smoking in the workplace, when will the House be dragged not into the second half of the 20th...

Prayers: Tobacco Products Labelling Bill (17 Feb 1995)

Mr John Austin-Walker: Would my hon. Friend care to reflect upon the contrast between how much the Government spend on trying to persuade young people not to smoke and the amount spent daily by the tobacco industry on trying to encourage young people to take up smoking?

Remaining Private Members' Bills: Tobacco Advertising (Voluntary Code) (13 May 1994)

Mr John Austin-Walker: ...the Secretary of State for the Environment to the Prime Minister last November in which he said that, if the Government wanted to be seen to be serious about wishing to reduce the prevalence of smoking and to improve health, they would introduce an outright ban on tobacco advertising. May we take it from his statement today that the Government do not wish to be seen to be serious about...

Clause 1: Publication of Advertisements for Tobacco Products (13 May 1994)

Mr John Austin-Walker: ...to the Prime Minister: Further there does seem to me to be an inconsistency in a policy which continues to defend tobacco advertising even in a restrictive form with a policy designed to reduce smoking further"?

Clause 1: Publication of Advertisements for Tobacco Products (13 May 1994)

Mr John Austin-Walker: ...Gentleman accept that a number of non-smokers are children and that they do not find advertisements gobbledegook? Those advertisements have a substantial impact on young people and their take-up of smoking.

Opposition Day: National Health Service (London) (28 Apr 1994)

Mr John Austin-Walker: ...The Government may argue that the bulk of tobacco advertising is aimed at persuading people to switch brands, but it is clearly a fact that between 100 and 150 people a day die as a result of cigarette smoking. One of the principal aims of tobacco advertising is to recruit teenagers to replace the smokers who have died. In London, the problem of tobacco-related illness is as great as...

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Smoking (21 Feb 1994)

Mr John Austin-Walker: To ask the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, representing the House of Commons Commission, what representations he has received regarding smoking in the Palace of Westminster; and what assessments he has made of the risks to persons and the fabric of the building.

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill (11 Feb 1994)

Mr John Austin-Walker: ...to the manufacturer's instructions, is likely to kill one in four of the people who use it? Tobacco must be seen in a specific light. We know that the largest cause of preventable ill health is smoking. Each year, 110,000 premature deaths are caused by and linked directly to smoking. A comparison has been made between deaths from smoking and deaths from other causes such as road accidents...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill (11 Feb 1994)

Mr John Austin-Walker: ...as many as five different adverts. Hon. Members should look at the interviews with children themselves, when they were asked what images they see from advertising. The children replied: hard men smoke this cigarette … the advert was telling you that if you smoke them you are going to be a macho he-man … it is colourful, like all cigaretts ads … trying to associate the...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill (11 Feb 1994)

Mr John Austin-Walker: .... The biggest contribution she could make to combating ill-health in the nation would be to put a ban on cigarette advertising. Every Member of Parliament could point to the impact of cigarette smoking on their constituencies. Of the 792 people who die in Woolwich every year, one in five dies as a result of cigarette smoking. Each year, 458 residents of Woolwich go into a national health...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill (11 Feb 1994)

Mr John Austin-Walker: ...have received a letter from a consultant physician at the Brook hospital. He says As a Chest Physician, virtually every day I see both in my Out-patient clinics and as In-patients… the effect that smoking has had on my middle-aged and elderly patients who have gradually become incapacitated with chronic bronchitis and emphysema which has progressed to respiratory failure … In...

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Smoking (14 Jun 1993)

Mr John Austin-Walker: To ask the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, as representing the House of Commons Commission, if he will make a statement on the policy with regard to smoking in the Palace of Westminster; and what plans he has to review this.

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Smoking (14 Jun 1993)

Mr John Austin-Walker: Is the right hon. Member aware of the report of the Health Education Authority on the impact of passive smoking? Is he further aware of a recent out-of-court settlement involving a local authority and a claim against it for compensation from one of its employees? Does he not think, in the light of the advice given by the Health Education Authority, that he has responsibility for the health...