Results 1-20 of 47 for smoking speaker:Paul Flynn

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Drug Classification (14 Jun 2007)

Paul Flynn: ...—a drug which is in many ways a great deal more dangerous than the drugs covered by the classification system. In the new classification that we have seen, nicotine comes very high when it is smoked; when taken in other ways, its classification is lower. Our system is entirely irrational. My hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) was extremely generous about the...

Business of the House (3 Nov 2005)

Paul Flynn: The vote on the smoking ban is really a vote on whether we have a partial or total ban—whether we vote for saving thousands of lives and avoiding thousands of cases of cancer, or stick to the holy writ of the manifesto. I remind the Leader of the House that not all Labour Members stood on the same manifesto, because there were different manifestos in Scotland and Wales. May we have a...

Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill (18 Jan 2005)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...world. Sweden is the only country to have reached World Health Organisation targets for the reduction in cancer deaths by 2000, and it did so by encouraging people to ingest nicotine rather than smoke it. As with cannabis, the danger comes from smoking. In this country, people mix cannabis with tobacco, a dreadfully toxic addictive drug that kills. To return to the point that I was making,...

Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill (18 Jan 2005)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...we call the dual diagnosis were frightening. The report quoted 80 per cent. of people with serious psychiatric problems also having serious problems of drug dependency. There is also a problem with smoking. A huge percentage of the people in mental hospitals are smokers, a far greater proportion than among those who are not mentally ill. Over the years, unanimity among all parties in the...

Cannabis Reclassification (10 Feb 2004)

Mr Paul Flynn: I hope that the hon. Gentleman is so convinced by his own argument against smoking that from today he stops selling cigarettes from the convenience store in Swansea in which he has an interest—that he will stop his own drug pushing. If he believes that the change in the law was not beneficial, why is it that after 20 years of regulated, policed, licensed decriminalisation of cannabis in...

Written Answers — Health: Smoke-free Public Places (24 Mar 2003)

Mr Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the British Medical Association's report, "Towards Smoke-free Public Places".

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (25 Feb 2003)

Mr Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have died in each of the last five years as a result of passive smoking; and what measures are being taken to reduce exposure to passive tobacco smoke.

Written Answers — Health: Nicotine Replacement Therapies (6 Feb 2003)

Mr Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the percentage of smokers who will stop smoking permanently through the use of nicotine replacement therapies in the next five years.

Written Answers — Health: Smokers (6 Feb 2003)

Mr Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of the population (a) permanently stopped smoking and (b) took up smoking in each of the last five years.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Nicotine (14 Jan 2003)

Mr Paul Flynn: The Government are to be warmly congratulated on their work on this issue, but is it not amazing that over the past 20 years the number of male cancers in Sweden has been cut in half and that smoking among men has gone down from 36 per cent. to 17 per cent.? Last month, the Royal College of Physicians said that using smokeless tobacco is up to 1,000 times less hazardous than using smoking...

Drugs Policy (13 Jan 2003)

Mr Paul Flynn: ..., which, according to its maker's instructions, kills half its users. Sweden has achieved that by accident rather than deliberate policy. It is almost embarrassed about it. I refer to the use of smokeless tobacco. In 1980, 36 per cent. of Swedish males smoked cigarettes. That figure is now 17 per cent. The hon. Member for Upminster said that she was against drugs, no matter how they were...

Drugs Policy (13 Jan 2003)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...offer was distilled spirit, which was highly concentrated. In a market such as that in Holland, in which there is a choice, the majority of people use a safer drug and take it in a way that avoids smoking, which is the most dangerous way of taking it.

Smokeless Tobacco (7 Jan 2003)

Mr Paul Flynn: I should like to measure the Government's ambition with regard to their policies. They say in their response to the Health Committee's report that their ambition is to get smoking levels among males in the poorest areas down to 26 per cent. by 2010, but in Sweden currently the level of smoking among males is down to 17 per cent. as a result of the use of snus. How on earth can we say that we...

Smokeless Tobacco (7 Jan 2003)

Mr Paul Flynn: Since the House last met in late December, the number of Britons who have died from smoking is twice the number who were killed in the terrible attack on the twin towers. We have a dreadful toll of 120,000 deaths every year, and we are not reducing that number. The last report of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence on Zyban and nicotine reduction therapies tells us that the number...

Written Answers — Health: Tobacco Products (25 Feb 2002)

Mr Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what standards the Government sets to protect consumers from toxins in (a) smoking and (b) chewing tobacco products; and whether she has taken advice from the (i) Chief Medical Officer and (ii) Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health on appropriate standards for the protection of public health.

Written Answers — Health: Tobacco (12 Feb 2002)

Mr Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will make a statement on the harm caused to nicotine users of (a) using oral tobacco and (b) smoking cigarettes; (2) what advice he received from (a) the Chief Medical Officer, (b) the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health and (c) other public health experts regarding the public health implications of the ban on oral tobacco products...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking Cessation (4 Dec 2001)

Mr Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to support (a) smoking cessation campaigns and (b) campaigns to divert smokers into less dangerous ways of ingesting nicotine.

Drugs Strategy (9 Nov 2001)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...(Pete Wishart) asked about people going on to harder drugs. The success of the Dutch scheme lies in the fact that the two markets are separate. Young people can use drugs. They do not have to smoke them—they can take them in safer ways such as in food or drinks. They are not exposed to the pushing of hard drugs users. Another great success of the Dutch drugs policy is that the use of...

Steel Industry (28 Mar 2001)

Mr Paul Flynn: .... Manufacturing industry in Wales is the biggest component of Welsh GDP at 27 per cent. Steel is an industry of the future. It is constantly seen as part of the past--it is often described as a smoke-stack industry, and many other pejorative terms are used--but it is nothing of the sort. The modern steel industry is high-tech, and has received huge investment. It is a sustainable industry,...

Illegal Drugs (21 Mar 2001)

Mr Paul Flynn: ..., which the hon. Member for Ribble Valley sells in great quantities. People could take soft drugs by other means--by eating, by drinking, or through inhalers, for example--which are far safer than smoking. They could also take milder forms of drugs in a market where they were not prohibited. In the United States under prohibition, the alcohol that was sold was distilled spirit, which was...