Results 1-7 of 7 for smoking speaker:Bob Laxton

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

Bob Laxton: ...right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth), who could by no stretch of the imagination be described as a zealot about anything, I admit to being a bit of a zealot when it comes to smoking. Indeed, I have been a virulent anti-smoker for many years. If someone put my name into Google or looked me up in "Who's Who", they would see that I once described smoking as a dirty,...

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

Bob Laxton: Yes, there is an argument for that. By now, anyone would have concluded that, as a virulent anti-smoker, I would be very much in favour of a total ban across the piece. I took that view until about six months ago, but I have finessed it a little because of some of the impositions that have been put on the statute book. I do not want to drag up banning hunting with dogs, but we have seen that...

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

Bob Laxton: No, I shall not take interventions. The Bill gives people such as me an element of choice, which I do not currently have. Most pubs allow smoking in part of their establishment. Perhaps they do not allow it in the restaurant or perhaps they have a no-smoking area, but most restrictions are ineffective in practice.

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

Bob Laxton: No, not even to the previous Conservative Member for Derby, North, whom I was pleased to defeat at the time. The non-smoking facilities in many public houses are inadequate. Under the new arrangements, I shall have a choice. I will be able to go to a wide variety of establishments if—as I do—I wish to socialise in a non-smoking environment. Those who want to smoke, insist on...

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

Bob Laxton: ...to making an exemption for what I term "inherently dangerous workplaces"? For example, Acordis Acetate Products has a large chemical site on the edge of my constituency, where there has been no smoking for 40 years because of the inherent danger. It has always provided smoking rooms, so there has been no mix between smokers and non-smokers. If an exemption is not made, employees, who...

Asthma (12 May 2004)

Mr Bob Laxton: ...support to future guidelines. Finally, there is one thorny issue about which we, as a nation, must make up our minds. The Government and others, including me, are studying New York's experiment with banning smoking to see what the social, economic and financial fallout will be. Closer to home, some of us are looking closely at what is happening in southern Ireland. So, my final...

Long-Stay Patients (29 Oct 2002)

Mr Bob Laxton: ...toothpaste, toothbrush and other toiletries, newspapers and magazines, stamps and stationery, the occasional haircut and paperback novel, and often cigarettes. I have to admit that as a notorious smoking fascist, I would on almost any other occasion urge someone to use this opportunity to give up the noxious and foul weed. However, the fact remains that even those who do not smoke have a...