Results 1-20 of 41 for smoking speaker:Ian McCartney

New Member: Schedule 6 — Repeals and revocations (12 Oct 2009) has video

Ian McCartney: I will take only a minute of the House's time, because the Secretary of State needs to respond to the debate. First, I thank the British Heart Foundation, Smoke & Mirrors, and Smokefree Northwest for the past year of non-partisan support, advice and help, as well as my colleagues in the House, and people in each Department I have spoken to. A boyhood hero of mine, Denis Law, once said of...

New Member: New Clause 1 — Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children (12 Oct 2009) has video

Ian McCartney: The hon. Gentleman has said much about the nanny state and he has said that there is no problem with smoking, full stop, because it is legal. If he believes that, why does he not have the courage of his convictions? Why does he not start smoking and see where he gets to?

New Member: New Clause 1 — Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children (12 Oct 2009) has video

Ian McCartney: ...of children from illness and premature deaths in the years to come. We require the Secretary of State to regulate to prohibit the sale of tobacco from vending machines. Why do we need to do more? Smoking is an addiction of childhood, not an adult choice. Members may come here tonight and argue that it is to do with adult choice, but it is no such thing. More than 80 per cent. of people who...

New Member: New Clause 1 — Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children (12 Oct 2009) has video

Ian McCartney: ...apologise to the House for the most distasteful remarks I have heard in the Chamber in 23 years. When we are trying seriously to defend the interests of young children from the effects of tobacco smoking, all that the hon. Gentleman can produce is a quip which is not worthy of response other than this: I have given you 100,000-plus reasons why every year we should ensure that this product...

New Member: New Clause 1 — Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children (12 Oct 2009) has video

Ian McCartney: ...realise that today in his constituency he has constituents who are dying prematurely because of the tobacco industry. Yesterday, I attended a conference of 100 young people in Chester, many of them smokers. They took a vote and they asked me to tell the House tonight. Nine out of 10 of them voted to have a strict ban on vending machines. Young people are speaking up and speaking out, and...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Ian McCartney: ...Front-Bench job was as Labour health spokesperson. My right hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) is here. We are where we are today only because he campaigned on issues such as smoking and preventive strategies in primary care and because of his commitment and engagement during that period, when the then Government refused to listen to any arguments about investing in the...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Ian McCartney: ...), whom I like. He has been very kind to me—indeed, he sometimes offers me lifts to the House. I have not been able to persuade him to vote Labour, but I have been trying to get him to stop smoking for years, and I hope that he has.

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Ian McCartney: ...figure is that 86 per cent. supported licensing retailers to sell tobacco, with licences being revoked if retailers sold to under-age smokers, while 81 per cent. agreed with the idea of a ban on smoking in cars with passengers aged under 18. Some 79 per cent. would also support a crackdown on smuggling, which is a critical issue in the north-west, so perhaps we can discuss smuggling when...

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Fire Safety (Schools) (19 May 2009)

Ian McCartney: ...of Parliament, I would organise a campaign to get dangerous foam furniture banned outright, and last year we celebrated the ban's 20th anniversary. The link between the ban and the introduction of smoke alarms nationwide has saved an estimated 14,000 lives and 100,000 injuries. Changes in the law on fire prevention work extremely well. Over the past 20 years, the United...

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Fire Safety (Schools) (19 May 2009)

Ian McCartney: ...called the three amigos. We campaigned for the banning of dangerous foam furniture and linked it to the introduction of new building regulations to force the building industry to ensure the introduction of smoke alarms in all new build and refurbished properties. The decision in 1988 to ban dangerous foam furniture and to amend the building regulations resulted in millions of houses in...

Orders of the Day: Confident Consumers (11 May 2006)

Ian McCartney: ...the legislation. New legislation was also introduced, with the help of a former Conservative Member for York who lost his seat in 1997—it is still a Labour constituency—to ensure that smoke alarms were fitted in all new property. It also required that all old property for rehabilitation had to have such alarms fitted. Local authorities up and down the country have spent tens of...

Drug misuse (22 Feb 2000)

Mr Ian McCartney: ...key stage 3, 11 to 14-year-olds learn that the abuse of alcohol, solvents, tobacco and other drugs affects health, that the body's natural defence may be enhanced by immunisation and medicines, and how smoking affects lung structure and gas exchange. At key stage 4, youngsters of 14 to 16—the age of the hon. Gentleman's constituents' children—learn about the effects of...

Orders of the Day — National Minimum Wage Bill: Armed Forces (9 Mar 1998)

Mr Ian McCartney: ...were moved. We had a more rumbustious debate in Committee, but this evening we have approached the issue differently. We have had the battle upstairs and the battleground has now been cleared. The smoke has now left the battlefield, we all know where we are going and the sooner that we can move forward, the better.

Clause 6: Attendance, Information and Evidence (26 Jun 1995)

Mr Ian McCartney: ...the Foreign Secretary had announced his intention to retire, and the Secretary of State for Wales resigned today. There is no truth in the rumour that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury provided a smoking gun free of charge. In what will become the Redwood amendment, we should like to know where the Minister stands. Planet Vulcan is in the ascendancy, eclipsing planet Portillo, and both...

Pneumoconiosis (25 May 1995)

Mr Ian McCartney: ...retirement because of this disease. I spent the majority of my life mining coal underground, and destroyed my health as a result, but the personal cost of my contribution is being denied. Another told me: I've never smoked and don't drink, and just can't comprehend how the agency can distance my illness from my occupation—I feel sickened by the falseness of the Government's...

Remaining Private Members' Bills: Tobacco Advertising (Voluntary Code) (13 May 1994)

Mr Ian McCartney: ...but not only on their way to and from school; every time children leave their homes, they are confronted by tobacco advertisements whose specific purpose is to encourage children to start smoking and then to continue doing so. The space devoted to health warnings is to be increased to 20 per cent. of the total area covered by an advertisement. However, a few weeks ago the Government were...

Clause 1: Publication of Advertisements for Tobacco Products (13 May 1994)

Mr Ian McCartney: Not for the moment. Ninety per cent. of smokers pick up the habit as children or teenagers, and 60 per cent. before the age of 13. Much of that is a consequence of advertising that encourages them to smoke, some of it on retail premises. [HoN. MEMBERS: "Rubbish."] Evidence for that comes not just from this side of the House but from the Government's own report by Professor Smee, which is a...

Clause 1: Publication of Advertisements for Tobacco Products (13 May 1994)

Mr Ian McCartney: ..., who has made yet another perceptive remark. Evidence collected not just in the United Kingdom but throughout the world reveals how the pernicious use of advertising attracts young people to smoking and sustains their habit. That is why the amendments are so damaging to the principle of the Bill. 1.30 pm The amendments are designed to protect the sale of tobacco products, but during...

Clause 1: Publication of Advertisements for Tobacco Products (13 May 1994)

Mr Ian McCartney: The hon. Gentleman makes a telling and devastating remark. He is correct: the purpose of that advertising is to replace the 300 customers a day who are killed by smoking. Without that customer replacement, consumption would fall even further. It is as cynical as that. That is why Parliament should not allow itself to be manipulated by cynical supporters of the industry and should not allow...

Clause 1: Publication of Advertisements for Tobacco Products (13 May 1994)

Mr Ian McCartney: ...for the targets outlined in "The Health of the Nation" and highlighted the need for an overall policy. This part of the Bill is a small but significant part of the attempt to change the attitude to smoking and the continuation of the habit.