Results 1-4 of 4 for smoking speaker:Margaret Beckett

Climate Change and the Environment (8 Feb 2005)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...is out of all proportion to either their numbers or their relevance. That is not unprecedented, of course. The hon. Member for Lewes gave the example of those who query the link between lung cancer and smoking, and there are still more who still query the link between HIV and AIDS. So that phenomenon is not uncommon, but it is dangerous. I will not reiterate the examples that the hon....

Orders of the Day — The Economy (13 Dec 2000)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) welcomed that. We have too often overlooked the need to tackle the causes of ill health. That is why we will bring forward legislation to help to tackle smoking, which kills 120,000 people every year in this country. It is a huge charge on us all, as well as a huge waste of life. With some defined exceptions, tobacco advertising will be banned....

Orders of the Day — Investment (20 Nov 1995)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...chair of the Conservative party, who used the press launch of the Queen's Speech to explain that its main purpose was not to further the national interest or address weakness in our economy but to smoke out the Labour party. Indeed, take the President of the Board of Trade, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, who went to the Confederation of British Industry conference, not to...

Health Care (3 Jul 1995)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...ill health; but, as always with this Government, the policy is flawed. Their first concentration is solely on the individual. It is up to him to eat sensibly, to keep warm in winter, and not to smoke, but the Government refuse to acknowledge their responsibility, the role of public policy, or the harmful effects on health—let alone on the ability of the individual to carry out those...