Results 1-5 of 5 for smoking speaker:Laura Moffatt

Orders of the Day — Drugs (Sentencing and Commission of Inquiry) Bill (25 Feb 2005)

Mrs Laura Moffatt: ...was a problem for him. However, we are finding that, strangely, young people respond more to messages about body image than to those that say, "You're going to die if you take this." The same applies to smoking. If we tell young women that they will have horrible wrinkles and a saggy bottom by the time they are 40, they start to think about their cigarette smoking. Perhaps the hon....

Workplace and Roadside Drug Testing (14 Jan 2004)

Mrs Laura Moffatt: ...survey and who attend nightclubs and go dancing in the evening, 85 per cent. reported driving on at least one occasion in the previous 12 months after taking illegal drugs. Some 45 per cent. had smoked cannabis while driving, 43 per cent. had driven after using ecstasy, and 25 per cent. had driven within hours of using amphetamines. Some 11 per cent. had driven after using cocaine, and 8...

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

Mrs Laura Moffatt: ...statistics in any way we wish, and we all garner the arguments that support our point of view. The reality is that the evidence firmly shows that a ban would have the positive effect of reducing smoking habits. However, I shall put that to one side, because one piece of evidence proves that preventing the advertising and promotion of smoking will reduce it: the tobacco industry actively...

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

Mrs Laura Moffatt: ...What informed choice is there for them? Where are their civil liberties when they know that they are addicted to something that is killing them? We need to be realistic about the real effects that smoking has on people. I have sat with people whose circulation has died in their legs and who have had to have awful amputations. I make no apology for mentioning these matters, because we can...

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

Mrs Laura Moffatt: ...House needs to be careful about evidence, but how can the hon. Gentleman possibly explain the fact that in countries where a ban was instituted there were immediate drops in the number of people smoking cigarettes, ranging from 35 per cent. to 15 per cent., and where there was no other influence on the decline?