Results 1-15 of 15 for smoking speaker:Gwyneth Dunwoody

Environment, Transport and Local and Devolved Government Affairs (25 Nov 2004)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...Its drivers change halfway along, but not in a service station but by standing in a lay-by. They do not allow any of their passengers to get off, although the drivers frequently leave the vehicle for a smoke. I am assured that, last Sunday, a 16-year-old who did not realise that she could not get off the bus and who went to buy a can of drink was refused entry back on to the bus by the...

Food Standards Agency (15 Jan 2003)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...a special responsibility. No one representing any constituency in the United Kingdom does anything other than support public health. I have spent my entire life battling against those who want to smoke, insisting on better conditions for people in poor accommodation, and doing what I can to improve public health generally and the quality of life enjoyed by the people of this country. We...

Prayers: Coastguard Services (26 Nov 1997)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...himself served as an auxiliary coastguard for many years, setting out in considerable detail what happened when he reported to Stornoway a boat with a single occupant setting off a distress Orange Smoke Flare near Scourie village in North West Sutherland …very close to rocks, and with only minutes to go before darkness". The letter sets out a series of circumstances that, happily,...

Prayers: Holiday Airlines (Safety) (3 Jul 1996)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...by an electrical fault. That was rectified, and the plane was ready to take off. They then experienced a further, absolutely horrifying catalogue of problems, including finding themselves in a smoke-filled plane. Eventually, 91 of the passengers refused to travel on the plane, and had either to find their own way back or to sit up in the airport all night. That is scarcely a sensible way...

The Health of the Nation (22 Oct 1992)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...of services that would allow us to hit those targets. That has probably been the worst con trick that the Government have tried on the British public for many years. When talking about reducing smoking, one must understand that it is necessary to cut back advertising for smoking, particularly that aimed at young people. The length of time that people smoke is one of its most hazardous and...

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

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...of the manner in which, how and to what extent it amends? A verbal amendment of this kind will lead my hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore, for example, who is developing specific points about smoke control, into considerable difficulty if he does not know in which way the Bill is to be amended and to what extent.

Opposition Day: National Health Service (19 Jan 1988)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...looking at other means of funding and improving the service", when what they really mean is, "In my constituency, I want you to spend more money, but elsewhere I want you to cut back." Many of the smoke-screens relate to things that do not matter a damn in relation to overall finance. We can alter the administration as much as we like. Really the organisation was a disaster, and, although...

Opposition Day: Inequalities in Health (6 Dec 1982)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...have demanded in terms of voluntary arrangements. They have done nothing to change the law. The Government must know that if the companies were to agree to a better warning on the effects of smoking on pregnant women, this would have a direct effect on the health of the children who most concern us. They have done nothing positive. Indeed, they seem to have ran away from the difficulty as...

Smoking and Health (9 May 1980)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...of tobacco products and on the sponsorship of sporting events by tobacco companies. I cannot see an argument for those of us who agree that the young should be protected from encouragement to smoke saying that, nevertheless the tobacco companies should continue to sponsor sporting events. We cannot say to the young " Come and join in sport. It is something that you will enjoy and which is...

Smoking and Health (9 May 1980)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...way in which cigarettes were sold, and the taxation arrangements, in such a way that in Britain we now have a system of taxation that is connected with weight and that makes it easier for people to smoke more nicotine than before? That was done by the Assembly, and the Public Health and Environment Committee did not even discuss it.

Smoking and Health (9 May 1980)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will emphasise that that company does not comply with the terms of the voluntary code. Its advertising always creates the impression that smoking and healthy behaviour go together. Such image-making is deliberately in contravention of the existing code.

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (13 Apr 1978)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: Does the hon. Gentleman accept—I know that he is a very honest man—that there is a direct and hard evidential link between smoking, carcinogenic diseases, bronchitis and related diseases? There is that link between smoking full stop and those diseases, and not between smoking light cigarettes or heavy cigaretes, which may merely involve numbers. The Health Education Council was...

Question of Privilege (3 Mar 1975)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...of Travel Agents.Mutterings of vested interests and power-politics are being bandied about. Nothing, of course, can be conclusively proved. But in situations such as this there is usually no smoke without fire.The question being asked is: What is the real significance of the Dunwoody broadside?Is she speaking for the holidaymaker at large when she claims they could eventually need...

Oral Answers to Questions — Board of Trade: Trade Descriptions Act (25 Feb 1970)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: The hon. Member and I have this in common, that between the two of us we shall do all we can to publicise the dangers of smoking. I am sure that one of us is bound to be heard.

Prayers: Lung Cancer (9 Dec 1966)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...need for more and more health education, because surely this is the important point. Those of us who are anxious that the general public should realise the difficulties and the dangers involved in smoking are not saying to them, "You must not smoke"—although we would very much prefer them not to. What we are saying is that, "You must know the enormous risks involved before you...