Results 1-13 of 13 for smoking speaker:Harry Cohen

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Television (3 Jul 2007)

Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether accommodation used in reality television programmes are enclosed public places for the purposes of the forthcoming smoking ban; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Territorial Army (23 Jun 2003)

Mr Harry Cohen: ...was originally sold by a British company, Marconi, as a command and control system. If any Territorials investigated the trailers, would they find a "Made in Britain" stamp on them? If this is a smoking gun in terms of weapons of mass destruction, why did we apparently sell them?

Health and Safety at Work (14 Mar 2002)

Mr Harry Cohen: ...mentioned by my hon. Friend the Minister in his intervention are relevant. The argument advanced by the hon. Member for Cotswold was almost the same as the one that we heard for years about smoking. That industry used the excuse that the scientific evidence was flimsy. The hon. Gentleman makes the same argument for those who want to bring back white asbestos. As for his point about not...

Written Answers — Health: Heart Disease (7 Feb 2002)

Mr Harry Cohen: ...lower level for particular individuals and ethnic groups, (c) insulin-resistant metabolic syndrome and (d) non-cholesterol related causes; whether there are targeted remedies other than quitting smoking and excessive alcohol intake and improving diet and exercise; and if he will make a statement.

Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport (Penalty Fares) Bill (By Order) (10 May 1990)

Mr Harry Cohen: ...the service for passengers. We had a voluminous report on the terrible tragedy at King's Cross, but many of its recommendations have not been carried out. LRT has only just got round to banning smoking on the underground, but it has not banned the shops on the stations from selling cigarettes. Many other recommendations have not been implemented. Safety drills have not been implemented....

Orders of the Day — Computer Misuse Bill (9 Feb 1990)

Mr Harry Cohen: ...It said that the Government aimed to legislate in the current Session. Clearly he assumed in October that the legislation would be in Government time. In early November something happened. We had smoke signals from the old fag end himself, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. They suggested that, because of the pressure of legislation in the Queen's speech, Government time would...

Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy (5 Feb 1990)

Mr Harry Cohen: I appreciate that point, and we must take it at face value, but that reminds me of when it was said that there was no evidence that smoking caused cancer. Years later, it was suddenly discovered that there was such a link. I fear that that may become the case in this respect.

Orders of the Day — Control of Smoke Pollution Bill (14 Apr 1989)

Mr Harry Cohen: ..., may I make a brief point? Perhaps she can tell us the status of the part in summary on the face of the Bill which refers to the removal exemption from the statutory nuisance provision of…smoke from certain domestic chimneys".

Orders of the Day — Control of Smoke Pollution Bill (14 Apr 1989)

Mr Harry Cohen: ...which my hon. Friend should consider is that the Bill started out repealing the exemption from the statutory nuisance provisions. If the amendment is passed, people will be able to create a smoke nuisance. 1 pm The sinister aspect is that, perhaps the Government meant "amend" in the first place but put "repeal" because they wanted to defuse any opposition so that the issue would not be...

Orders of the Day — Control of Smoke Pollution Bill (14 Apr 1989)

Mr Harry Cohen: Perhaps we could table a verbal amendment to this Bill to say that the Employment Bill which shackles trade unions that might have an interest in smoke pollution should not apply. Perhaps that could be a precedent for the Dock Work Bill.

Orders of the Day — Control of Smoke Pollution Bill (14 Apr 1989)

Mr Harry Cohen: ..., the House accepted that it was a good Bill. However, the amendments fundamentally alter the Bill, because, for example, section 16(1)(a) of the Clean Air Act 1956 exempted chimneys that produced smoke that was deemed to be a statutory nuisance. Under the unamended Bill owners of chimneys creating a nuisance would no longer be able to get away with it, but because of the words "to amend"...

London Regional Transport (Penalty Fares) Bill [Lords] (6 Feb 1989)

Mr Harry Cohen: ...On "World in Action" tonight, Mr. Richard Warburton, director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, described barriers as an obstruction, especially where there is heat and smoke. My hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-West mentioned the article in the Evening Standard. I recently tabled a parliamentary question about LRT and London Underground Ltd. not...

Orders of the Day — Animals (Scientific Procedures) Bill [Lords]: (17 Feb 1986)

Mr Harry Cohen: ...These diseases could be greatly reduced by epidemiological studies of their causes and by strong Government action, for example in banning known carcinogens from our environment and action against smoking to improve the quality of our life. It is cheaper to carry out tests on animals than to have long, carefully controlled tests on human beings. Even for cures, self-culture tests are...