Results 1-16 of 16 for smoking speaker:Stephen Pound

Orders of the Day: British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill (29 Feb 2008)

Stephen Pound: I hesitate to intervene on my hon. Friend, but may I say that it is two years since I smoked a cigarette and that I have not had a drink since Ash Wednesday? I am grateful, however, for my hon. Friend's thoughts about my health.

Orders of the Day: British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill (29 Feb 2008)

Stephen Pound: Over the years I have come to admire and rather like the hon. Gentleman, going back to the old days when we used to sit in the Smoking Room together, when we were younger, more innocent and far less healthy than we are now. But in expressing that admiration I must say that never for a second did I believe that he had at his fingertips, without prompting, knowledge of the number of early-day...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Iran (Detention of Naval Personnel) (19 Jun 2007)

Stephen Pound: .... Friend has made a calm, dignified and comprehensive statement to the House. Rightly, it was apologetic in parts, and I think that all reasonable people will thank him for that. However, when the smoke has cleared and we have moved on from issues to do with matelots and iPods, some questions will remain. Is my right hon. Friend entirely convinced in his own mind that the information that...

Orders of the Day — Police and Justice Bill (6 Mar 2006)

Stephen Pound: Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Are you aware that some hon. Members may be suffering "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" in that they are trying to give up smoking tobacco and may be masticating medicinally on occasion and should therefore possibly be forgiven?

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Stephen Pound: ...worried—young people aged between about 11 and 13 who are taking up this habit—are the very people who do not go to pubs. To a large extent, discussing pubs in the context of stopping smoking is nonsense, because in doing so we are not dealing with the people whom we actually want to address. We must never forget the Oscar Wilde quote: "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Stephen Pound: ...do so to go to our Royal British Legion, where the staff are happy and prepared to work, and where the members are happy and prepared to enter, to have our cigarette and our pint? Others prefer the smoke-free sushi bars of—I was going to say Primrose Hill, but my right hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Frank Dobson) is in his place, and I do not wish to embarrass...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Stephen Pound: ...with graceful brushed aluminium, beneath which the discerning man or woman may stand, enjoy a cigarette, do whatever damage to themselves they will, and do no damage to anyone else. The tobacco smoke is swept up into the cowl, where it is filtered and exuded—

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Stephen Pound: It is clear that two of us here read the Irish Medical Journal. The figures show that there has been a continuing decline in the numbers of smokers over the past five years. There is no statistical evidence to suggest that the numbers have risen since the smoking ban was introduced. The long Kondratiev cycle has to be borne in mind, but five years is statistically significant. I do not want...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Stephen Pound: ...search of licensed premises—in an investigative role. I had been told that Ireland was the exemplar of the new legislation, as it is an exemplar in so many ways. This was the place where the smoking ban had been imposed, and by heaven, the proud Celts had stepped back and said "That's it: no more cigarettes." What a vision I observed in Temple Bar! What an extraordinary sight greeted...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Stephen Pound: ...I used to rise and have a reflective cigarette; then I would have breakfast and a cigarette; then I would say my prayers, but remember what my good Jesuit confessor said: "You should never ever smoke while you are praying, but you can pray while you are smoking." I would then get on a bus and leap like a lithe gazelle to the upper deck, where I would have a couple of Players Weights before...

Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill (18 Jan 2005)

Mr Stephen Pound: I do not want to be antagonistic, but does the hon. Gentleman have any empirical evidence whatever to support the thesis that milk drinking leads to whisky drinking, or that cannabis smoking leads to the injection of diamorphine hydrochloride?

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill (5 Jun 2003)

Mr Stephen Pound: Amid the smoke and swirl of battle, it may have escaped the Committee's notice that two modest amendments stand in my name in this great phalanx that we are considering. Before I speak to them, I should like to say how much it depresses me, as a democrat and lover of parliamentary traditions, that we have sunk to the level where the front page of The Sun is prayed in aid as the intellectual...

High Hedges (No. 2) Bill (28 Mar 2003)

Mr Stephen Pound: National no-smoking day is barely 11½ months away and I shall bear those comments very much in mind. I should like to thank Hedgeline for its sterling work in propagating and promulgating the extent of the problem and the possible solutions. Most of all I want to thank Mrs. Georgina Paul, of Hicks avenue, Greenford. Mrs. Paul and her husband are constituents of mine, and they are...

Health and Pensions (14 Nov 2002)

Mr Stephen Pound: ...), an extraordinary description of the strange goings on in Richmond—a strange part of the world where consultants and chief executives apparently appear, reappear and disappear in a puff of smoke in what is clearly Hogwarts hospital. She described a circumstance that I have never before suspected, although I had often wondered what strange magic in the air made people vote Liberal...

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)

Mr Stephen Pound: In the interests of balance, it may be appropriate to hear the gasping tones of at least one smoker. Oscar Wilde said: XA cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied." However, he also said: XAs long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." That is...

Behaviour Improvement in Schools (12 Jul 2002)

Mr Stephen Pound: ..., parental involvement. Some of the worst cases of drug involvement in schools that I have been aware of have been where boys have sold cannabis which they obtained from their father, who grows it, smokes it and allows it in the home and in no way condemns it, and even gives his son that drug to sell. That is an actual case. Two years ago I was at a school asking year 6 pupils what they...