Results 1-7 of 7 for smoking speaker:Frank Cook

Naval Support (Changes) (17 Aug 1991)

Mr Frank Cook: I have enjoyed watching the Secretary of State trying to make smoke, and I am sorry to have to break through his screen. Will he take the opportunity afforded by his statement to answer the question determinedly evaded by his right hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces whom I asked to scotch the idea of closing in October the royal naval detention quarters at Portsmouth? Will...

Taxi-cabs (Control of Smoking) (6 Jul 1988)

Mr Frank Cook: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to authorise the prohibition, by notice displayed alongside the meter, of smoking in taxi-cabs. In January 1985, Richard Carless, a cabbie from Basildon, refused to take a pipe-smoking passenger at London airport. Richard Carless suffers from acute bronchitis. The passenger was quite happy to wait for another cab but the incident was seen...

Prayers: BBC (Injunction) (4 Dec 1987)

Mr Frank Cook: ...to other means of obtaining and discovering that information. I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that one of the means left to hon. Members on occasions such as this is to use the media in concert to smoke out information of that kind. With the deepest respect, I ask you to reflect, Mr. Speaker, on the position in which this form of gag places hon. Members of this House——

Health (23 Oct 1987)

Mr Frank Cook: Does the hon. Lady care to indicate whether the Government are considering lending their support to proposals that would invert the legislative structure so as to create areas where smoking is permitted rather than areas where it is banned?

Nuclear Waste (9 Feb 1987)

Mr Frank Cook: ...but is a threat to generations to come, unless we handle it correctly now. We have heard about poisons and the toxicity of radioactive waste but that is a threat similar to that posed by cigarette smoking. It is a threat to the generation that lives with and absorbs the poison, and there is a degree of volition in it. Radiation, however, is much more insidious and much harder to detect. As...

Nuclear Energy (13 May 1986)

Mr Frank Cook: ...in Britain was rejected on the grounds of lack of efficiency and economy. To suggest anything else would be untrue. The comparison with jumbo jet accidents and the incidence of hazards from smoking is, once again, misleading. Those accidents and smoking hazards strike only at the existing generation. When we discuss radioactive elements we discuss issues that strike at subsequent...

Orders of the Day — Shops Bill [Lords] (14 Apr 1986)

Mr Frank Cook: ..., who have publicly expressed opposition to these proposals, to present some specious statement of sterile objection before cowering to the pressure of their party's bully boys and whispering their abstention in the Smoking Room as usual. I remind them that there will be no place to hide when the Division lists are published, and the next election is not many Sundays away from tonight.