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Written Answers — Health: Smoking (10 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assistance with smoking cessation his Department makes available to prisoners.

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: New clause 24 - Powers of confiscation (27 Feb 2003)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...Members frequently jumping up and down. My hon. Friend the Member for Witney makes a good point. There is a problem of low-level disorder, which is often manifested by underage drinking, underage smoking and people openly carrying cannabis around in the streets. Any open flouting of the law in that way is a symptom of disorder. I remember a chief constable telling me that he had been to...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 145 - Pre-sentence drug testing (6 Feb 2003)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...among us that it is desirable—the Government accept it, even with class C and B drugs—to discourage people from using drugs. For that matter, the Government discourage people from smoking and from drinking excessive quantities of alcohol. All those things tie together. They are important public health issues, but they have a link with societal breakdown and crime. I do not...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 145 - Pre-sentence drug testing (6 Feb 2003)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...need, and if the drug has a physical influence on the person while it is in his system. I think that my hon. Friend will agree that someone is in a different physical condition after he has smoked cannabis from that which he was in before. That is evidenced by the fact that he is unsafe to operate machinery or to drive because his cognitive functions are impaired. In the United States, a...