Results 1-20 of 45 for smoking speaker:Peter Bottomley

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Peter Bottomley: ...months or more. I am glad that they were not, but those are pretty horrifying figures. I hope that the position is now changing, but it used to be the case that 5,000 people in this country took up smoking each week. The same number of cigarettes were being sold each week. We knew that 2,000 people had died-not all of them prematurely-and we knew that 3,000 had given up while still alive....

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Peter Bottomley: In addition to that, will the Secretary of State try, whenever he can, to make the point to those who smoke that they should try never to be the first person to light up in any group and that they should try not to smoke in front of someone younger than them?

Orders of the Day: Health and Social Care Bill (26 Nov 2007)

Peter Bottomley: ...cannot come from public authorities or commissions. Whatever the benefits of having child benefit during the later stages of a pregnancy, the health of the mother can be affected when the father smokes, for example. That can affect rates of birth handicap. Some congenital malformation is perfectly normal, but some can be severe. Some of the severe ones can be affected by the state of the...

Orders of the Day: Offender Management Bill (11 Dec 2006)

Peter Bottomley: ...our local hospital. At about 10 o'clock in the morning, after a busy day for the staff in the hospital, a youth came out of accident and emergency, asking for cigarette papers. I think that he wanted to go on smoking what he had been smoking the evening before. He then went back in, but he and two of his friends came out of the hospital escorted by an employee of a firm called Global...

Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (23 Oct 2003)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...21. When I last looked at them, those figures were slightly better than they had been, but they still are not good enough. For all I know, they may have deteriorated. Each week, 5,000 of our children take up smoking. They are making the same mistakes that we made, either because of peer pressure or because they are copying those close to them. It is a sign of avoidable disadvantage,...

International Women's Day (6 Mar 2003)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...that one of the day's purposes is to ask men what they are doing to help tackle problems of which women are too often the victims. Let us consider another example. Five thousand people who were smoking last week will never smoke again: 2,000 have died—not all prematurely—and 3,000 have given up. Tobacconists sell roughly the same amount of cigarettes every week. That means that...

Road Safety (28 Jun 2001)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...that. I ask them kindly to say whether those who have died in crashes were wearing seat belts. The present situation is about as ludicrous as that of people who die in early middle age because they smoke. The media and coroners conceal that fact, but we should be far more open about the factors, not necessarily causes, associated with deaths that are often unnecessary. I suggest that when...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions: Amendment of the Law (7 Mar 2001)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...not to do so. Let me give another example of the Chancellor's not quite achieving what he was after. This is at the opposite end of the spectrum. It has been estimated that one cigarette in three smoked in this country carries no tax. The stealth tax on smoking—which does not feature much in Budgets—hurts lower socio-economic groups most, both because they tend to smoke more...

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

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...suits outside this country? I was not chosen to do so, so I earned no money in that way, but I wanted to declare that interest. The critical issues are how to reduce the number of people taking up smoking, and how to shorten the time that people are smokers. The Government have not adopted Clive Smee's estimate of a 7 per cent. impact of a ban on tobacco promotion and advertising. In...

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

Mr Peter Bottomley: Is it not a fact that, when the right hon. Gentleman was Secretary of State, about 3,000 people a week were giving up smoking for the last time—while alive, that is? Is that level of cessation not rather higher than his successor's stated target?

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

Mr Peter Bottomley: Does the Secretary of State think that it would be a good idea to talk to doctors, coroners and others to try to ensure that the number of times that smoking is put on the death certificate is increased significantly from the current handful, so that it is a factor that relatives and friends cannot ignore?

Smoking (10 Dec 1998)

Mr Peter Bottomley: People will welcome the Secretary of State's analysis that it is vital to get young people who take up smoking to understand that they are doing what children do, not what adults take up. Will he give more prominence to the work of Dr. Malcolm Green and his colleagues at the British Lung Foundation, because, as well as hearts, lungs matter? Sometimes that is overlooked. While considering...

Drug Misuse (13 May 1998)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...last week. She was an elderly woman who had lost a locket given to her by, I think, her godmother. It was of no particular value to anyone else. Its street value was probably so trivial that a smoker who did not smoke cigarettes for a day would probably save the same amount. To my constituent, however, it was a link to someone who had mattered a great deal to her. I do not want to start...

Drug Misuse (13 May 1998)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...there is no point telling them afterwards. People have a choice whether to start using drugs or not to continue using drugs, having experimented with them. We should make the same plea as I make to smokers—I say that as someone who smoked for many years: I am still addicted, but I have not smoked for some time. They should try not to smoke in front of someone who is younger than they...

Public Health (5 Feb 1998)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...to the Green Paper is sexual health? Is it not also true that people in this country are more likely to contribute to the statistics for conceptions and terminations than they are to take up smoking? The figure for the former is 6,000 a week, while the figure for the latter is 5,000 a week. The Secretary of State spoke of using reasonable terms. Should he not try to unite the House rather...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Tobacco (22 Jul 1997)

Mr Peter Bottomley: The hon. Lady is right to say that a combination of pressures is needed to stop 5,000 teenagers a week taking up smoking. Is it possible to learn some lessons from the continuing campaign to end drink-driving? Can she try to give more emphasis to the points that she used to make on radio, with some effect—if people around smokers disapprove, those smokers are far less likely to continue...

Orders of the Day — Social Policy (25 Oct 1996)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...up against a culture in which certain behaviour is acceptable or predictable, and we have to try to make it a more general issue. The number of people each week who for the first time take up smoking is 5,000. That is 250,000 a year. But when we see a young person smoking, our only response is, "You are too young to smoke." Perhaps the more general response is to take up the argument...

Opposition Day: Women (7 Mar 1995)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...to gaol for six months or more. It is women who often perform a caring role when health—mental or physical—breaks down. Sadly, the emancipation of women has seen an increase in the smoking habit among women. If women account for half the smoking in our society, they will account for half the 100,000 who will die prematurely every year as a result of smoking. The hon. Member...

Opposition Day: Women (7 Mar 1995)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...(Lady Olga Maitland). I ask him, because he is knowledgeable in these matters, how much of the change in some of the women's killer diseases, which have been growing, is the predictable outcome of smoking and how much is linked to what people eat? Obviously, there are environmental issues as well, which I do not dispute. Could we predict what the change over the next 10 years in the death...

Prayers: Tobacco Products Labelling Bill (17 Feb 1995)

Mr Peter Bottomley: ...abide by the letter but not by the spirit of the voluntary code, they add to the pressure to tighten the code or to introduce more legislation? Does he agree that if 5,000 people a week stop smoking, 2,000 because they are dead and 3,000 because they have given up before they die, and if fewer people take up smoking after the age of 21, much of the effort must be directed at people who,...