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Points of Order: Public Health (England) (22 Feb 2007)

Bob Blizzard: ...risk factor for coronary heart disease. By 2004, however, the Wanless report, "Securing good health for the whole population", said that obesity "has the potential to be of equal importance to smoking as a determinant of future health." Since then, we have seen even greater changes regarding obesity. The key facts are that obesity reduces life expectancy by an average of nine years and is...

Points of Order: Public Health (England) (22 Feb 2007)

Bob Blizzard: I very much welcome the smoking ban, but does my hon. Friend share my concern that we will end up with lots of people standing outside buildings smoking and creating piles of cigarette ends on the pavement, which will be a public health risk? Will she work with local authorities to ensure that they take the appropriate action through the litter control tools that they possess so that we are...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking Cessation (4 Dec 2001)

Mr Bob Blizzard: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the budget for smoking cessation services from April 2002.

Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General: Drugs Cases (25 May 2000)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ...way? May I urge him not to be enticed by the arguments pushed and pedalled by those who make the case for legalisation or decriminalisation? Does he agree that, at a time when we are trying to ban smoking, it makes no sense to take a softer line towards people who mix tobacco with cannabis and then smoke that?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Cancer Patients (Drugs) (15 Dec 1998)

Mr Bob Blizzard: Many cancer patients will have cancer because of smoking. Although no doubt many people will continue to choose to kill themselves through smoking, does my hon. Friend agree—bearing in mind last week's White Paper, particularly its title—that it is unacceptable that those of us who do not smoke should continue to be put at risk of being killed by those who do smoke? What steps...

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