Results 1-20 of 21 for smoking speaker:David Wilshire

Public Bill Committee: Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill: Schedule 2 (17 Jun 2009)

David Wilshire: ...drivers because I am a learner Chairman, as you have noticed, and I am grateful to you all for accepting my shortcomings with good humour. I am sure that it is not only Mr. Knight I will see in the Smoking Room later.

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 10 - Prohibition of sponsorship (14 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...I am not associated with it. Some people in my party may actively promote tobacco; I have no idea. I have at no time in the course of the Committee or knowingly in my life set out to encourage people to smoke. I merely speak on behalf of legitimate business doing a legal activity being allowed to carry on its business. I do not consider that to be picking on anyone. I defend people's...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 9 - Prohibition of free distributions (14 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ..., once we accept the principle of what the Bill will achieve. It is the principle with which I am in disagreement. The hon. Gentleman focused his remarks on a swing for the kiddiewinkies, if one smoked £6,000 worth of tobacco. If someone smoked that amount of cigarettes, he would not have the puff left in him to push the swing, which made me wonder why that particular item was in...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 7 - Developments in technology (14 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...securing enough convictions, because for some reason he wants to be macho and find innocent people guilty of a crime to show how effective he is being and does not have the courage to ban tobacco smoking, for all sorts of obvious reasons. That is why the Minister needs to be much more careful about what she says. She must not try to deny that the clause affects the burden of proof merely...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 6 - Specialist tobacconists (14 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...provision gives rise to another issue. Given crop failures and climate variation, it is possible that the availability of tobacco in its usual quantities from particular places may vary. As a non-smoker, I must rely on what other people tell me, but I gather that there are distinct differences in tobacco and that if someone smokes tobacco that comes from Africa, it does not automatically...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions (9 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...much as the airlines and the businesses that use them, so this is a point-of-sale argument as well. We have heard many arguments that the tobacco industry is busily trying to get more people to smoke, but almost all the airlines prohibit smoking on flights; British Airways and other British airlines operate a total non-smoking policy, as do almost all the airlines in the world....

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions (9 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...pension fund managers, to demonstrate beyond all doubt that the annual report is itself an advertisement. I should have thought that fund managers are far too hard bitten to fall for any of that smoking rigmarole. We have established via pension fund managers that the document is an advert. We must then fall back on the fact that anything contained in it that has the effect of promoting...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions (9 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: The hon. Gentleman keeps interjecting. If he wants to debate whether the Government should ban smoking, let us have that debate.

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions (9 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...because it is less damaging to health. That company could have tens of thousands of small investors, who will receive an annual report without an advertisement or a deliberate attempt to promote smoking. However, it might suggest to investors in the company that they should consider, for the purposes of their health, switching to brand B. If that were to happen, the effect of the annual...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions (9 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...activity. If that company is particularly successful, and if the annual report suggests that the product is a good investment, the effect of producing the annual report may be to encourage smoking, because a person may receive the report and think, ''I am doing very well out of this; it must be a successful and enjoyable activity, so why don't I smoke and help to increase the profits of...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 - Prohibition of tobacco advertising (9 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...to know that. We must have that out in the open once and for all. Putting aside all of the medical arguments, one reason why a group of people object to this legislation is not because they love smoking and tobacco, but because they see it as an assault on the rights to free speech. I think that I heard the Minister admit that that is right. If she has made that admission, we have made...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 - Prohibition of tobacco advertising (9 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...have been exposed for sloppy thinking in the way that they approach the freedoms of the individual. I was also concerned that the Minister said that it was permissible to put an ''I love smoking'' sign in the window—reference was made to Marlboro advertisements, although I cannot remember the details. Let us suppose that a commercially produced advertisement comes into my possession...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Meaning of ''tobacco advertisement'' and ''tobacco product'' (7 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...is not tobacco. What if someone worked out how to extract the nicotine from tobacco and to make a product for recreational use? Remember that the amendment is intended purely to help people give up smoking. The words of the amendment will stand in the record and can perhaps be used in future. A product could be put on the market for recreational use, not for medical use or to help...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Meaning of ''tobacco advertisement'' and ''tobacco product'' (7 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...Minister will clarify why ''sniffed'' has to be included. If my arguments proved to be justified, a one-line amendment to take out the word could be deployed. We have discussed alternatives to smoking, including some of the therapy alternatives. If one takes snuff, and I hasten to add that I do not, and have no wish to do so, one does not set fire to it. It would be quite awkward to put...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Meaning of ''tobacco advertisement'' and ''tobacco product'' (7 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...hope that the Government take amendment No. 2 less seriously. Whether we agree or disagree on the wisdom of the Bill in principle, I suspect that anything we can possibly do to reduce the number of smokers and therefore the harm that smoking does to us would unite members of the Committee—even my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke, who smokes. Perhaps he would be grateful if we...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Meaning of ''tobacco advertisement'' and ''tobacco product'' (7 May 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: .... How would you know to whom to send the cheque? Again, common sense must apply to such matters. The amendment mentions ''inscriptions, marks or signs exhibited on premises''. Are we assuming that all smokers are psychic and that I could wander down the high street and just say, ''Ah, I can buy cigarettes in there''? According to the Government, anything put on the outside of a shop...

Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill: New Clause 1 — Commencement (9 Jan 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...That is why you should feel reassured". Until that happens, however, I shall take the secrecy and the refusal to explain anything as meaning that nothing has been going on and there is nothing but smoke and mirrors. Until that is put right, the people of Northern Ireland will not be content.

Orders of the Day — Supplementary Vote on Account 2000–01 (14 Mar 2000)

Mr David Wilshire: ...the Financial Secretary will tell us. The fourth concern arises out of paragraph 5 of the introduction. It refers to a "token Supplementary Vote", and the word "token" is the one that worries me. The Government are using smoke and mirrors. They want us to agree to giving them £1,000 so that they can do what they like. It is not the sum that the Government want, but just a token. Why...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Goods for Sale on Board Ships or Aircraft (5 Jul 1999)

Mr David Wilshire: ...ill because the sea is rough. What will he do? He has bought drinks to consume, but has not consumed them. Will customs officers tear around the ship checking what people have eaten, drunk and smoked as they make their journey and demand duty if they have not finished a bottle? We need an explanation. 9.30 pm Another thing bothers me about the words "for consumption on board". We now...

New Clause 5: Requirement for Overriding Order (23 Mar 1999)

Mr David Wilshire: ...for that particular U-turn. I cannot help wondering—again, perhaps the Minister would like to enlighten us—whether the Government are not confident about best value. It is one of the smoke and mirror things that they are so good at—making policy look presentable. Is it perhaps that secretly, deep down, although they dare not mention it, they do not believe that best...