Results 1-13 of 13 for smoking speaker:Patrick Cormack

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Smoking Ban (26 Jun 2007)

Patrick Cormack: Has the absurd and misguided proposition that no smoking signs be erected outside churches and cathedrals been withdrawn?

[Janet Anderson in the Chair] — Organised Crime (Northern Ireland) (30 Nov 2006)

Patrick Cormack: ...co-operate with him on future roadshows. If we could bring home to the young people of Northern Ireland the appalling dangers, aside from the criminality, of buying noxious substances, whether to smoke them or to drink them, that would be a significant achievement. I want to finish on a note that concerns us all. The Minister quoted from the IMC's report and referred to the favourable...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Patrick Cormack: The hon. Gentleman is not obliged either to join a club or to go to one as a guest. If he knows that there is smoking in the club and he does not want to go there, he has no need to do so.

Modernisation of the House of Commons (26 Jan 2005)

Sir Patrick Cormack: .... [Interruption.] I wish that the hon. Member for North Cornwall (Mr. Tyler) would shut up for a moment. It is sad that the camaraderie that existed in this place for evening after evening in the Smoking Room and the Dining Room is a thing of the past. I frequently dine in the House on Tuesday or Wednesday, but rarely more than a handful of hon. Members are present to exchange views,...

Business of the House (26 Feb 1998)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...question whether the Paymaster General would reply. Will she assure us that there will not be another evasion, such as occurred when the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food sat in the Smoking Room while the House debated beef on the bone? The Paymaster General is specifically responsible for these matters, and we expect him to reply.

Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill: Beef Bones Regulations (10 Feb 1998)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...concern at the cavalier attitude that has been displayed towards the House by Ministers of the Crown. Is it not the ultimate cavalier attitude for the Minister of Agriculture to be sitting in the Smoking Room while this issue—which is of enormous concern to the farmers of this country—is debated on the Floor of the House?

Prayers: Adjournment (Christmas) (17 Dec 1997)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...will have a happy time with his family and some pleasant meals, he will reflect on the enormous damage that he has done by his precipitate action and panic measure. Every Member who decides to smoke sees a warning on the cigarette packet when he or she buys one. We know that there is a risk. I recently tabled a question relating to the 120,000 people who died from smoking-related illness...

BSE (Health) (25 Mar 1996)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...order to help to quell the urban panic that is being fomented on the Opposition Benches, will my right hon. Friend point out that people of all ages are at far greater risk from active and passive smoking than from BSE? Is he aware that this afternoon we are seeing a crude attempt to create the steak-rejecting economy?

Orders of the Day — Adjournment (Christmas) (19 Dec 1994)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...the shattered futures. We should recognise that, if we are going to commemorate the events of 1945 with any real credibility next year, we cannot have our commemorations accompanied by a pall of smoke over a country in Europe.

New Clause 6: Levels of Expenditure (27 Mar 1984)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...own side and rock the boat. I hear a voice muttering "Ambition", but ambition should be made of sterner stuff. They should have the courage of their Tory convictions, of which they tell me in the Smoking Room and Tea Room, and demonstrate them on the Floor of the House. Unless the measure is significantly amended during the next two days, there will be no point in voting for it on Third...

New Clause 8: Exempted Provisions (30 Apr 1971)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...subject. Much has been said about the fact that this is pioneering legislation, that we are striking out on something new and that to harry or, as some would put it, though not I, to persecute the smoker by issuing health warnings, is a novel concept, or at any rate a concept belonging to the twentieth century. However, this is far from true. I have with me a quotation which I am sure will...

New Clause 8: Exempted Provisions (30 Apr 1971)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...indulgence in some fine language, had little else in common with the hon. Gentleman. Despite this denunciation from the throne and a subsequent increase in the duty on tobacco, the popularity of smoking continued. It is a nice thought that it was largely due to the increase in popularity of smoking that England kept its hold on North America. In 1616 the first successful shipload of new...

New Clause 8: Exempted Provisions (30 Apr 1971)

Sir Patrick Cormack: ...when I was interrupted —and the interruption has merely served to lengthen my speech—in the eighteenth century it was the case that certain women enjoyed tobacco even if they had to smoke it in taverns. And indeed by the end of the seventeenth century smoking was not prohibited and had by then become encouraged. During the terrible year of the Plague in 1665 the boys of Eton...