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Health Bill [HL] — Report (2nd Day) (6 May 2009)

Baroness Tonge: ...on preventative measures too? Finally, I will just share with you my advice—I do not know whether they took it, I think they did—to my own children when they were experimenting with smoking. They asked me why it was such a bad idea: Granddad had lived till he was 90 and he was all right and he smoked 60 a day—you know the story. I used to say, "That is fine; he was very...

Health Bill [HL] — Report (2nd Day) (6 May 2009)

Baroness Tonge: My Lords, I agree with everything that has been said about the effect this amendment will have on young people. If tobacco products and cigarette packets are on display, they will be encouraged to smoke. For me there is no doubt about that. I do, however, understand the spirit in which this amendment was tabled. I would like to put on record that we have heard from retailers arguments about...

Health Bill [HL]: Second Reading (4 Feb 2009)

Baroness Tonge: ...health and well being". Yes, but perhaps there should also be warnings, not that the NHS will not treat you but that your treatment in the NHS may be delayed if you are too fat, if you are a heavy smoker or if you drink too much and have a hobnail liver. These things could have been pointed out under obligations. Vaccination of children is great hobbyhorse of mine. In many countries,...

Health: Obesity During Pregnancy (9 Jun 2008)

Baroness Tonge: ...with women who become obese during pregnancy. This happens—women of normal weight can grow obese during pregnancy, for emotional or feeding reasons, or perhaps because they have given up smoking. No one has mentioned the link between women smoking and keeping their weight down. This is important, particularly to young women. In one of my pregnancies, for no reason that was ever...

HIV/AIDS Overseas (5 Apr 2005)

Dr Jenny Tonge: ...what is left for themselves. In developing counties, when one bowl of rice goes between all, women get very little food. We must tackle that. We must also tackle the fact that women inhale more smoke from burning wood. Wood is still the staple fuel in developing countries and that affects their physical health and respiratory system in a big way. We must make moves on that. All such...

Written Answers — Home Department: Smoking (Public Places) (7 Nov 2002)

Dr Jenny Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to ban smoking in public places.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Smoking Cessation (26 Mar 2002)

Dr Jenny Tonge: What assessment he has made of the impact of smoking cessation publicity measures on smoking cessation.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Smoking Cessation (26 Mar 2002)

Dr Jenny Tonge: ...piloted through the other place by my noble Friend Lord Clement-Jones is also an important factor? Does she have any idea of how many young people—women in particular—have taken up smoking while the Government have been dithering over a ban on tobacco advertising for five years? Is she not ashamed to be a member of a Government who kowtow to big business at the expense of young...

Chest Disease (1 Mar 2002)

Dr Jenny Tonge: The Minister is being very generous in giving way; these opportunities are very useful. What progress is being made with young women and smoking, which is a matter of great concern?

International Development White Paper (3 May 2001)

Dr Jenny Tonge: With that encouragement, I will. Priestley said: There was the Black Country unrolled before you like a smouldering carpet. You looked into a hollow of smoke and blurred buildings and factory chimneys. There seemed to be no end to it. He added: I could easily believe that there were no people down there. He spoke of the area's iron face lit with hell fire. I remember from my childhood the...

Bills Presented: Aircraft Noise (South-west London) (28 Oct 1997)

Dr Jenny Tonge: ...is disrupted until the noise subsides. I do not suggest that the problem is overwhelming at the moment. Twenty years ago, however, we doubted the evidence that was emerging on the link between smoking and lung cancer. That is how medical evidence emerges. The evidence that is emerging on the effects of noise on health and on children's attainment in schools around airports is at a similar...