Results 1-20 of 140 for smoking speaker:Hazel Blears

Public Bill Committee: Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill: Clause 113 - Powers of designated and accredited persons (18 Jan 2005)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...CSOs dealing with young people and the related powers that they have to deal with alcohol and tobacco. Again, in their day-to-day business, when they are out patrolling, they will find youngsters smoking and drinking on the street causing a nuisance to local residents. CSOs should have the power to search for alcohol and tobacco that the youngsters could have concealed about their person....

Written Answers — Home Department: Chemical Agents (6 Oct 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...CS agents to disperse a riotous assembly in life-threatening situations; subject to prior authorisation by the relevant chief officer. The CS is pyrotechnically discharged in the form of a cloud of smoke from a hand-thrown or weapon-launched grenade. The option has only been used once in a public disorder situation in Toxteth, Liverpool, in 1981. A small stock of such devices is retained...

Written Answers — Health: Cancer (13 Jun 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: We have increased the visibility of health messages highlighting to smokers the risks of smoking, including lung cancer. New Regulations require tobacco products to carry larger, starker health warnings on both front and back of the packet. The dangers of second hand smoke are also highlighted in some of the new warnings. NHS smoking cessation services are well established across England. The...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (13 Jun 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: The Department of Health has been actively tackling attitudes to smoking among different ethnic groups in the United Kingdom and offers support through its national health service Asian tobacco helpline. This helpline provides a confidential advice service in mother-tongue languages and English, specifically tailored to the needs of the South Asian communities. It provides advice and support...

Written Answers — Health: Chewing Tobacco (10 Jun 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...is a legal tobacco product, though it is not as widely available as other forms of tobacco and is popular among some ethnic communities. The national health service offers support through its Smoking Helpline on 0800 169 0 169, its Asian helplines and smoking cessation services across the country for those who wish to quit. In common with all other tobacco products, chewing tobacco is...

Written Answers — Health: Physical Activity (3 Jun 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: Milestones 2 and 3 of Chapter 1 of the national service framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease (CHD) concern the delivery of local programmes of effective policies on reducing smoking, promoting healthy eating, increasing physical activity and reducing overweight and obesity. In April 2001, the Department of Health commissioned the Health Development Agency to undertake an analysis of...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (3 Jun 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: To help prevent conditions linked to smoking we have established a comprehensive tobacco programme focussed on delivering a reduction in the number of smokers. As part of this, between April 1999 and December 2002 over 529,000 people set a quit date with the help of the national health service smoking cessation services.

Written Answers — Health: Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (21 May 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...Health Assembly. The text is due to be agreed by consensus at the World Health Assembly. The Government indicated its support for this World Health Organisation initiative in the 1998 White Paper, Smoking Kills. Since then, the Government has been firmly committed to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the Government intends to support its adoption.

Written Answers — Health: Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (20 May 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: The Department has received representations from the British Medical Association and others in support of international measures to reduce smoking. In particular, recent representations have focused on the draft Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which is due to be adopted at the World Health Assembly later this month. Discussions within the European Union are focused on preparing a...

Written Answers — Health: Smoked Food (14 May 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...an offence to describe food in a way that is false, or likely to mislead a purchaser about its nature, substance or quality. Guidance notes accompanying this legislation make clear that terms like "smoked" can easily be abused and suggest that products that have been immersed in, or sprayed with, a solution which imparts flavour and colour should be described as "smoke flavoured" rather...

Written Answers — Health: Cardiovascular Disease (12 May 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...per 100,000 population, by 2010. Prevention of CHD in the population and in high-risk patients by promoting physical activity, promoting healthy eating, reducing overweight and obesity and reducing smoking can make a significant contribution to this target. In order to inform and lead action on exercise across the National Health Service, the Department of Health, Sport England and the...

Written Answers — Health: Heart Disease (Women) (12 May 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...are aimed at both women and men. These take a life-course approach and focus upon diet and nutrition, reducing overweight and obesity, increasing physical activity and reducing the prevalence of smoking. It is also a Government priority to reduce the proportion of women continuing to smoke throughout pregnancy, focusing especially on smokers in low-income groups. This is reflected in a key...

Written Answers — Health: Tobacco Advertising (1 May 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...' means an advertisement: whose purpose is to promote a tobacco product, or whose effect is to do so and 'tobacco product' means a product consisting wholly or partly of tobacco and intended to be smoked, sniffed, sucked or chewed. Section 4 of the Act identifies exclusions. These relate to: tobacco trade communications aimed at specified trade contacts; communications made in reply to a...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (14 Apr 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: If we are to ensure protection against passive smoking in public places, we need action nationally and locally both to raise awareness of the risks associated with passive smoking and to increase the prevalence of smoke free environments. The Department will continue to encourage the development of smoke free policies, working with employers and communities. At a national level, the...

Written Answers — Health: Cannabis (11 Apr 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...for 2002 are planned to be published in summer 2003. (3) The percentage of pupils who have used cannabis in 2002 are not yet available by age group for boys and girls separately. Sources: 1. "Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England in 2000"—(Department of Health) published by The Stationery Office ISBN 0 11 322562 8...

Written Answers — Health: Health Awareness Courses (10 Apr 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...8212; * * NHS Direct * * * * * * Organ donation * * * * * * RU Thinking (teenage pregnancy) * * * * * * Sexual health — — — — * * Smoking — — * * * * TB awareness — — — — * — * Depicts year of campaign.

Written Answers — Health: Air Quality (9 Apr 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: The independent Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health concluded in its 1998 Report that: Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is a cause of lung cancer and, in those with long-term exposure, the increased risk is in the order of 20–30 per cent. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is a cause of ischaemic heart disease and if current published estimates of magnitude of...

Written Answers — Health: Health Education (9 Apr 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...is to raise awareness of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and to provide information to encourage condom usage. The key objective is to reduce rates of STIs amongst the target audience Smoking The purpose of the Tobacco Information Campaign is to reduce smoking prevalence in England. The campaign's most visible presence is a TV advertising campaign

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (9 Apr 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...out by the schools health education unit are not based upon representative samples; therefore the results and any assertions about trends should be treated with caution. The 1998 White Paper, "Smoking Kills", set a target to reduce smoking among 11–15 year olds from 13 per cent., to 9 per cent., by 2010 with a fall to 11 per cent., by 2005. Progress towards this target is monitored...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (9 Apr 2003)

Ms Hazel Blears: ...and Health, in its 1998 report, concluded that an enquiry from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 1 (commissioned by the Department of Health) showed that: young people whose parents smoke are twice as likely to smoke as children of non-smoking parents; and that young people who perceive no parental disapproval are seven times more likely to smoke than young people who perceive...