Results 1-20 of 26 for smoking speaker:Evan Harris

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Cannabis (7 May 2008) has video

Evan Harris: The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs looked at the questions of harm, potency and the potential for binge smoking and recommended that cannabis should be class C. So the Government's proposal to make it class B cannot be rational or based on evidence about any of those issues: instead, it has to be based on what the police have asked for and on the Government's perception of public...

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

Evan Harris: ...neighbour of mine, whom I greatly admire. However, I see in the Oxford Mail the headline, "Boris: I took cocaine and cannabis". The article says: "Top Tory MP Boris Johnson has admitted to smoking cannabis and snorting cocaine, but few of his Oxfordshire colleagues shared his candour when approached last night." None of the Oxfordshire MPs, other than myself, was prepared to discuss their...

Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]: Secretary of State for Health (23 May 2007)

Evan Harris: Would the right hon. Lady care to comment on the extent to which changes in coronary heart disease death rates are affected by changes in smoking habits made 10 or 15 years earlier? The improvements in the Tory years could have been due to changes in smoking habits 10 or 15 years previously, and some of the changes we are experiencing now could also be due to earlier lifestyle changes. Does...

Government Performance Measurement (26 Feb 2004)

Dr Evan Harris: ...knowledge that the significant changes in cancer death rates have been caused by lifestyle changes 20 to 30 years ago. I do not think that the Conservatives should be credited with changes in smoking habits 30 years ago, but they are more able to claim the credit than those who are in the Government at the time when people die from the effects of smoking—fewer of them are dying,...

Government Performance Measurement (26 Feb 2004)

Dr Evan Harris: That is a performance indicator, which might contain merit so long as we compare like with like. However, unless we all change to Mediterranean diets or change our smoking habits at the same rate as France, it would measure only what it is measuring, and not the performance of Governments. I have never taken the view that the Government should be blamed for things that are going the other way...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: New Clause 26 — Provision of Primary Medical Services (8 Jul 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: ...between the patient and the GP may be enforced. I should like the Minister to clarify whether chapter 6 of that agreement could be used, if amended in future, to make patients agree to stop smoking, stop eating or start exercising before they can continue to get services. Perhaps the Minister will welcome the opportunity to put that idea to rest, because a number of people have read into...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 40 - Quality in health care (4 Jun 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: ...own health rather than that of the public. I accept that there is concern about the protection of the public, which is what subsection (2)(b) refers to. Public health initiatives on, for example, smoking cessation and the protection of the public and issues relating to the control of infectious diseases are also relevant. I do not disagree with anything in that subsection, but I question...

Written Answers — Health: Hospital Smoking Areas (21 May 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health in which hospitals smoking rooms or areas for (a) patients and (b) staff have been built in each year since 1997; and what the cost of building work was in each case.

Community Pharmacies (12 Mar 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: ...than loss-leading intended to increase footfall for the much wider range of goods that supermarkets can offer in comparison with pharmacies. Those goods include—even today, on national no-smoking day—cigarettes. Supermarkets want people to buy cigarettes and other products whereas community pharmacies, which do not sell such products, do not have that need. The abolition of...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking Cessation Services (5 Mar 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans the Government have for the expansion of smoking cessation services.

Food Supplements Directive (20 Jan 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: .... I know that people who feel that there should be freedom to consume also recognise that that must exist in the context of adequate health information. For example, very few hon. Members would ban smoking, but most of us insist that a significant amount of information should be given to people who are especially vulnerable, as they are addicted in many cases.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (10 Dec 2002)

Dr Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of primary care trusts have a trained healthcare professional to support those wishing to give up smoking.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (26 Nov 2002)

Dr Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when his Department will adopt rules for the use of (a) colour photographs and (b) other illustrations to depict and explain the health consequences of smoking, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 10 (2) of the EU Tobacco Directive.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking Rates (Children) (5 Nov 2002)

Dr Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the smoking rates among children in each year since 1990 in (a) England and (b) each NHS region.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (29 Oct 2002)

Dr Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the smoking percentage rates among women during pregnancy in each year since 1990 in (a) England and (b) each NHS region.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (28 Oct 2002)

Dr Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the percentage smoking rates in each year since 1990 in (a) England and (b) each NHS region for (i) all adults, (ii) non-manual groups and (iii) manual groups.

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] — New Clause 2 — Commission of body to study the effects of Act (21 Oct 2002)

Dr Evan Harris: ...research if they apologised for their obstructive approach to the public acceptance of the case—clearly accepted by the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham—that tobacco smoking and addiction to tobacco is extremely damaging. The hon. Gentleman referred to anxiety that price cutting might be used to get around a ban on advertising. That could certainly be a factor, but if...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 10 - Prohibition of sponsorship (14 May 2002)

Dr Evan Harris: I am a little concerned about the Minister's repetition of the words ''a tobacco product''. It may have been covered elsewhere in the Bill, but I presume that that includes tobacco products generally, so that a company that wanted its advertisement to say ''Smoke cigarettes'' without mentioning its product by name would still be covered. What the Minister says is important, not least for...

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

Dr Evan Harris: ...in their tobacco strategy, which I want to go into further. My final tribute goes to my constituent, Sir Richard Doll, who was the first to publish the clear evidence that tobacco kills and smoking kills. His landmark study set the background not only for this policy, but for many others that Governments have introduced. I hope that future Governments do the same. The fact that he is still...

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

Dr Evan Harris: ..., especially among young people. The Secretary of State and the Government are always careful not to antagonise anyone who might later appear in a focus group, so they talk about the right to smoke being protected and the Government being keen to make that clear. But we are really talking about the right of 70 per cent. of smokers to be addicted to cigarettes, because those people want to...