Results 1-8 of 8 for smoking speaker:Nicholas Soames
- Written Answers — Health: Action on Smoking and Health: Finance (16 Oct 2008)
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps he takes to audit funding provided to Action on Smoking and Health by his Department to determine what proportion is used to lobby his Department; (2) how many meetings (a) he, (b) his ministerial colleagues and (c) his officials have had on the future of tobacco control with (i) charities, (ii) professional bodies, (iii) retail...
- Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)
Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...newspaper—have shown that a majority of the general public seem to disapprove of almost everything, including, inter alia, the Conservative party, buggery, tripe and black pudding, smoking, immigration, Radio 3—and, very likely, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the colour of your front door, and indeed of mine. If all those, or more, are to be made the subject of criminal offences, we...
- Bills Presented: Defence Policy (28 Oct 1997)
Hon. Nicholas Soames: .... If it enables us to get away from the self-defeating trickery of double, and sometimes even triple, hatting, it will serve a good purpose and I shall support it. Clearing away some of the smoke and mirrors is not a bad ambition and we should support it. I wholly agree with the point made by the Secretary of State yesterday about the use of the military in furthering British foreign...
- Gulf War Syndrome (20 Dec 1994)
Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...unexplained illnesses were being suffered by our troops. The causes alleged to be responsible for the illnesses were diverse. They ranged from the use of depleted uranium shells, sandfly bites and smoke from Kuwaiti oil fires—as my hon. Friend rightly mentioned—to the medical protective measures rightly administered to the troops against the clearly and definitively assessed...
- Baby Milk (EC Directive) (27 Apr 1994)
Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...to consider legislating against the advertising of infant formula while refusing to take similar action in the case of tobacco. The fundamental issues involved are not the same. Cigarette smoking is a matter of personal and adult choice, and the Government believe that voluntary agreements with the tobacco industry provide the best way of controlling its advertising. It does not follow...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: "The Health of the Nation" (5 Nov 1992)
Hon. Nicholas Soames: My hon. Friend has no need to be so coy about these matters. I regard myself as a thoroughly good advertisement for healthy eating. The White Paper places emphasis on reducing smoking, improving diet and sensible drinking as key factors in the prevention of coronary heart disease, strokes and cancers. Dietary targets relate to a reduction in the population's average consumption of saturated...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Overseas Development: Nigeria (12 Jun 1989)
Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...should tell the Nigerian Government that although this Government have taken dramatic and important steps to ban the import of ivory, they have left out one important thing: ivory can be stained by smoking, so the clause that forbids the import of all new ivory should be extended to cover the import of all ivory.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Cigarette Smoking (11 Feb 1985)
Hon. Nicholas Soames: Will my hon. Friend take it from me that such interference is absolutely intolerable? Although I accept that there is everything to be said for educating children about smoking, will my hon. Friend accept that if adults wish to smoke,, that is entirely up to them and has nothing to do with the state?