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Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]: Public Health (5 Dec 2006)

Russell Brown: ...mentions Mr. Derek Wanless. May I mention to him another gentleman, Professor Alex Markham, the chief executive of Cancer Research UK, to whom I spoke a couple of weeks ago? He said about the smoking ban: "This is the most importance advance in public health since Sir Richard Doll identified that smoking causes lung cancer fifty years ago." Does he agree with Professor Alex Markham?

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Street Children (Congo) (18 Oct 2006)

Russell Brown: ...in the DRC is at crisis level. Street children survive through begging and stealing, which brings them into conflict with the law. Many undertake arduous work such as portering and regularly smoke marijuana to numb the effect of the reality in which they live. Nevertheless, it is important to acknowledge that some progress is being made by the Government of the DRC in developing...

Common Fisheries Policy (21 Nov 2002)

Mr Russell Brown: ...to management at both factories. On the surface, it seems that there will be little impact on those businesses. Both developed from cottage industries over many years. One started out producing smoked salmon and the company has now expanded to give regular employment to between 700 to 800 people. At this time of year, the number increases to between 1,100 and 1,200 to cope with seasonal...

Written Answers — Health: Anti-smoking Measures (7 May 2002)

Mr Russell Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action he is taking to promote the use of laser therapy to assist smoking cessation.

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] (29 Apr 2002)

Mr Russell Brown: ...concern, and am sorry for the tragedy that has blighted the life of the hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Hunter) and that of his good lady. My mother passed away six weeks ago today. She started smoking as a teenager, and continued for 56 years. It was not cancer that took her, but the tragedy of emphysema—her lungs were shot through. I support the Bill because if we can save one...

Alcohol (24 Apr 2002)

Mr Russell Brown: ...between the two. I tabled a question for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health on the use of laser treatment. There is a business in my area that offers laser therapy for smoking cessation. The figures stack up to show that laser therapy has a 46 per cent. success rate, whereas nicotine patches have only a 20 per cent. success rate. We need to consider treatments available...

Opposition Day: Foot and Mouth Disease (21 Mar 2001)

Mr Russell Brown: ...people. For example, schoolchildren cannot begin to understand what is going wrong in their communities. They have been moved back and forth every day for perhaps a week or 10 days. There is smoke in the atmosphere, and the fields seem to be on fire after dark. That is not a healthy environment—not because of the smoke, but because of what people are seeing every day. On the evening...