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Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009) has video

Frank Dobson: ...that, over the years, included equal rights for women, equal pay, abortion rights, Cyprus independence and anti-apartheid, and she also campaigned against the death penalty and the dangers of smoking. I have to say that Lena did not let those things distract her attention from the day-to-day needs of her constituents. She used to retell the tale that at her by-election in 1953 she was...

New Member: New Clause 1 — Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children (12 Oct 2009) has video

Frank Dobson: ...country, the tobacco industry kills more than 257. It did not just do that on 7 July 2005, but on every day of the year, and it continues to do it. That is the scale of the problem that we face. Smoking is the principal source of avoidable death in this country, and anybody who takes the issue seriously should support anything that we can do to combat the promotional activities of the...

New Member: New Clause 1 — Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children (12 Oct 2009) has video

Frank Dobson: ..., trying to introduce uncertainty about that research and trying to mislead the public. When, after the seminal research by Sir Richard Doll, it became clear to anybody who cared to listen that smoking kills, the immediate response by the tobacco industry was to say, "Oh no, it doesn't." Then the tobacco industry did its own scientific research, which concluded: "Yes it does," but it still...

New Member: New Clause 1 — Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children (12 Oct 2009) has video

Frank Dobson: No, I will not give way. Other people want to speak. Hardly anybody takes up smoking as an adult. Smoking is taken up by children or those in their late teens. Recently at the O2 Centre in Greenwich—as I understand it, O2 is not one of the oxygens, but it ought to be some chemical reference—there was a tented area that was dedicated exclusively to the promotion of cigarettes....

New Member: New Clause 1 — Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children (12 Oct 2009) has video

Frank Dobson: Roughly speaking, around half the people who smoke die, one way or another, as a result of being smokers. Then we have had the effort by the tobacco industry to get into what might be described as tobacco-branded accessories, which involves selling something that looks like Marlboro or Lucky Strike, which promotes the image and the brand. All I can do is quote probably the last ever words...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Frank Dobson: I should like to make one or two simple points. Smoking in enclosed spaces kills people. It kills smokers themselves, and it kills non-smokers who inhale second-hand smoke. It is obviously a good idea to try to stop people smoking in enclosed public spaces if possible. There is no longer any "if" about it, however, as we know that it can be done. Smoking in enclosed public spaces has been...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Frank Dobson: No, I would like to make progress, as other hon. Members would like to make a contribution. The Government want only a partial ban in England. Smoking is to be banned where food is sold, but it will not be banned where food is not sold. Pubs, clubs and bars serving booze but not food are mainly located in poor neighbourhoods, and serve working-class people, so the partial ban will be good for...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (3 Nov 2004)

Mr Frank Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his Department's estimate is of the number of people who die from smoking-related diseases in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (3 Nov 2004)

Mr Frank Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will carry out an assessment of the Irish ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces.

Written Answers — Health: Smoke-free Workplaces (11 Oct 2004)

Mr Frank Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what research he has commissioned to evaluate the economic effects on businesses of making workplaces smoke-free; (2) what evidence is held by the Government on the economic effects on the hospitality trade of making their premises smoke-free; (3) what advice he has received on the effects of smoke-free workplaces on (a) productivity, (b)...

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

Mr Frank Dobson: ...House of Lords in the previous Parliament, but it is here now and we must ensure that it gets through this time. I should also like to thank him for his kind mention of the tobacco White Paper, "Smoking Kills", which was published when I was Secretary of State for Health. I congratulate him on a thoroughgoing implementation of its contents, making possible a concerted approach to reducing...

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

Mr Frank Dobson: ...promoted three big lies. First, they said that tobacco did not kill; then they said that tobacco was not addictive; then they said, as they are still saying, that they did not want to recruit new smokers. All those lies have been exposed as such. The claim that tobacco smoking does not pose a threat to health has been exposed as a lie. Originally—I give them the benefit of the...

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

Mr Frank Dobson: .... Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Judy Mallaber) said, we are trying not to restrict any individual but to prevent fat-cat bosses in the industry from persuading people to start or to continue smoking. That is all that we are talking about. We do not want to stop Tom, Dick or Harry, but Ken and his mates. [Hon. Members: "Where is he?"] I am sorry that the right hon. and learned...

Written Answers — Health: Cannabis (16 Jul 2001)

Mr Frank Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what advice he has received on the carcinogenic, toxic and psychotic effects of smoking cannabis; and if he will place it in the Library.

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

Mr Frank Dobson: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that as there is such a high incidence of models and supermodels smoking on the catwalk, it would at least be a good idea to examine the relationship between the tobacco industry and the fashion industry?

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

Mr Frank Dobson: The major failure of the Tories was not to stop the rise in young people taking up tobacco smoking during the last few years of the Government of the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major). Hardly anyone takes up smoking when they are an adult; nearly all smokers start when they are children. There was a large increase in the number of children smoking under the Government of the...

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

Mr Frank Dobson: ...;5 million from someone who now wants to decide on its European policy and have a veto on who should become its party leader. Everybody, even the Opposition, recognises the immense damage that tobacco smoking does. The tobacco industry is the only industry in the world that sells a product that will result in the death of half of those who follow the maker's instructions. We read in...

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

Mr Frank Dobson: ...it is targeted on young people. That is one reason why we have to introduce the ban as quickly as possible. It will not do everything, but it will help to reduce the incidence of people who take up smoking. It is vital to include sponsorship of sport in the ban because it is clear that it is targeted on sports that will attract the attention and approbation of young people, in particular...

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

Mr Frank Dobson: I am a bit on the chubby side myself, but I admit that the idea of fat guys hurling darts is not likely to provoke many young girls to take up smoking, and that there are other factors at work. Nevertheless, the tobacco industry has not given up on getting boys to smoke. It is still making a huge effort to ensure that more boys than girls smoke. We have to try to reduce smoking by everyone....

Public Health (6 Jul 1999)

Mr Frank Dobson: ...Green Paper—and unlike the Green Paper, those tough targets now apply not only to people under 65, but to people under 75. Those targets are backed by action. On cancer, it is action against smoking, action to improve diet, action to improve screening uptake and quality, action to modernise cancer scanners and equipment, and action to improve treatment. On heart disease and strokes,...