Results 1-20 of 24 for smoking speaker:Howard Stoate

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

Howard Stoate: Just to help my right hon. Friend with the figures, 120,000 people die each year from smoking-related diseases, which is about 400 a day—the equivalent of the number on a jumbo jet falling out of the sky. That is the number of young people whom the tobacco companies need to recruit just to maintain the level of smokers in our society.

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

Howard Stoate: It gives me great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young), who talks with great authority about smoking and comes up with extremely important points. As he rightly noted, he is well ahead of his Front-Bench colleagues on the issue, and all power to him. I am sure he will support the measures, as he has promised to do. One of the advantages of a...

Topical Debate: Combating Obesity (13 Nov 2008) has video

Howard Stoate: ..., so I cannot assume that anybody else does. That is why, frankly, the current voluntary system that food manufacturers and vendors are operating is not working. Voluntary systems did not work with smoking, and in the end we had to legislate. Voluntary systems are not working with food labelling, and we will probably have to legislate on that, too. I ask the Minister to consider that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Obesity (23 Jan 2008) has video

Howard Stoate: ...very constructive set of proposals. Experience shows that, provided we take the public along with us at a speed they are happy with, we shall make much better progress, especially in areas such as smoking and environmental issues, where the public can be educated in order to improve the situation for the future. May I ask the Secretary of State to concentrate on two issues? One is that we...

Orders of the Day: Health and Social Care Bill (26 Nov 2007) has video

Howard Stoate: ...until an activity becomes a normative behaviour and is firmly entrenched in people's lives, so much so that they do it as a matter of course, we cannot judge a policy intervention to be a success. Smoking is a prime example of that. Whereas once it was seen as an unremarkable practice, or occasionally even as a socially desirable one, in many public areas smoking is now a marginalised...

Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]: Public Health (5 Dec 2006)

Howard Stoate: ...health, and as the House knows, I still do some work as a practising general practitioner. I am particularly pleased that the Government have set 1 July as the date for the implementation of smoke-free legislation in England. I hope that the Minister will follow that up with the announcement of a major public education campaign to ensure that the public and licensees are fully aware of...

[Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] — Primary Care Trusts (29 Jun 2006)

Howard Stoate: ..., the Government strategy for reducing health inequalities highlighted the important contribution that pharmacists can make to reducing obesity, improving sexual health and helping people to quit smoking. Although some PCTs have used their commissioning powers to great effect and have committed themselves to expanding the range of primary care services available to patients, others have...

Men's Health (28 Jun 2006)

Howard Stoate: ...by the YouGov survey published during men's health week. For example, stress, anxiety or depression are causing a third of sufferers to drink more alcohol. A further 18 per cent. start or increase smoking, and 4 per cent. admit to using illegal drugs in a bid to make themselves feel better. Nearly a fifth say that that makes them feel more aggressive. We also know that 73 per cent. of...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Management of the National Health Service (9 May 2006)

Howard Stoate: ...? "Because," he said, "you GPs are preventing them. Because you are treating people with high cholesterol and blood pressure, managing diabetes, coping with the effect of their obesity and their smoking, we are not seeing the heart attacks that we saw before". In other words, we are already seeing a fall-off of need. My acute hospital in Dartford, the Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust at...

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

Howard Stoate: ...balance must be struck, but does she agree that the most important thing is to protect all workers in bars, whether food is served in them or not, and to protect the whole public, whether they are smokers or not? Therefore, we should give people the opportunity to be able to eat and drink in a non-smoky atmosphere. Those who wish to smoke can always do so outside.

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening (21 Jun 2005)

Howard Stoate: ..., in March, men of both Houses could have a scan for an AAA, to find out for themselves how quick and simple the test is. Those at most risk of an aneurysm are older men, especially those who smoke, and those with high blood pressure or who have conditions such as angina. AAAs are rare in women and younger men. An AAA is a bubble-type swelling in the wall of the body's main blood vessel as...

Cholesterol and Disease Prevention (15 Mar 2005)

Dr Howard Stoate: ...factor for heart disease. Statistics show that raised blood cholesterol is a factor in nearly half of all coronary heart disease cases—47 per cent.—and is more significant even than smoking, blood pressure problems or the lack of exercise. Moreover, high blood cholesterol levels in diabetics and obese individuals carry an even greater health risk than in normal weight,...

Obesity (Young People) (25 Jan 2005)

Dr Howard Stoate: ...food. They are not born wanting burgers, chips and cola; that is learned behaviour. We must tackle the problem at the point where children learn that behaviour. The situation is a bit like that of smoking. Once someone has become a smoker, they are a smoker. If we can prevent them from taking up smoking, it will have a great effect on their health chances. The same thing applies to young...

Men and Cancer (16 Jun 2004)

Dr Howard Stoate: ...of cancers. We know that men in general are more likely than women to drink alcohol at levels that are harmful to health, to eat a poor diet and—this was especially true in the past—to smoke and to do so more heavily. On the face of it, that seems to place the emphasis squarely on the individual man and on the need to change his behaviour. As we all know, however, the real...

Community Pharmacies (12 Mar 2003)

Dr Howard Stoate: ...expertise to improve patient services. In meeting after meeting, I am made aware that pharmacists have set up patient group directions and are dealing with emergency hormonal contraception, anti-smoking mechanisms, lipid management and watering clinics, which takes some of the strain off GPs and front-line hospital services. That is to be welcomed. We are only just beginning to tap the...

Obesity in Children (22 Jan 2003)

Dr Howard Stoate: ...esteem, peer pressure and bullying. However, as I hope to show, the problem of obesity is far more serious than that. If not tackled effectively, it could become as serious a public health issue as smoking. Obese youngsters have already brought lawsuits against McDonald's in the US. The impetus for this debate comes from my research assistant, Brian Jones; he and I wrote a report on public...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Smoking (3 Dec 2002)

Dr Howard Stoate: I welcome my right hon. Friend's commitment to a reduction in smoking, and his work in making nicotine replacement therapy available to all NHS patients. That was a wonderful move. May I remind him, however, that 400 pupils are still dying every day in this country from tobacco-related diseases? The industry therefore needs to recruit 400 more young people a day, particularly teenagers, to...

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

Dr Howard Stoate: Does the hon. Gentleman really believe that tobacco advertising has no effect whatever on the consumption of tobacco? Does he honestly think that young people are not in any way seduced into smoking by advertising?

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

Dr Howard Stoate: I apologise for not being here earlier in the debate, but I was attending a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation. As my hon. Friend knows, eight out of 10 people who smoke wish that they had never taken it up and seven out of 10 would like to give up if they could. Does he believe that advertising is a major factor in people taking up smoking in the first place?

Orders of the Day — National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill (20 Nov 2001)

Dr Howard Stoate: ...many of the basic functions carried out in practices, such as taking blood pressures, ensuring that patients are up to date with immunisation, giving general health advice, leaflets, advice on smoking and diet, and so on. A very large number of functions could be carried out by a lower grade of health care professional in practices. That would take much of the pressure away from general...