Results 1-20 of 37 for smoking speaker:Sandra Gidley

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

Sandra Gidley: ...would leave out clause 21, which introduces the display ban. I have already commented that tobacco is an adult product. I have seen no convincing evidence that this provision will reduce under-age smoking. Under-age smokers get their cigarettes mainly from other sources. If the Government were serious about cutting off supply to younger people, they would support one of the proxy sales...

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

Sandra Gidley: ...life-destroying cigarette. There is a problem. Ultimately, however, I am also a scientist and a Liberal, and we are talking about an adult product. The ban has been touted as a means of reducing smoking among the under-aged. If I felt for one moment that it would do that, I would support it, but it does not, so I will be supporting provisions to remove it. As I said, we are talking about...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: New Clause 12 (25 Jun 2009)

Sandra Gidley: I am slightly confused by the amendment. I believe that a lot of nicotine replacement therapy is already available. There are a number smoking cessation schemes around the country that were introduced by the Government.

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: New Clause 10 (25 Jun 2009)

Sandra Gidley: ...Report, but there is an interest in the House in discussing as many ways as possible of tackling this problem. We may disagree on some of the fine detail, but most people are committed to reducing smoking and, ultimately, to saving lives. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the clause.

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: New Clause 10 (25 Jun 2009)

Sandra Gidley: ...completely, there may be a compromise in restricting what is on display. It has been shown by numerous people that tobacco branding is particularly potent in the recruitment of young people into smoking habits. Design features, including colour coding, give them misleading and illegal impressions that one type of cigarette is less harmful than another. In fact, they are all fairly, or...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: New Clause 10 (25 Jun 2009)

Sandra Gidley: .... I have a concern about the white packs that have been sent round, because white often looks like a healthy colour. Brown might be a better colour—to match the colour of one’s lungs after smoking such products—but it is worth mentioning that the plain pack will enhance the prominence of the health warnings. It has been said that plain packaging would not reduce youth...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: New Clause 10 (25 Jun 2009)

Sandra Gidley: ...the world. Even if products are put under the counter, the plain packaging amendment means that there is no pack appeal. All the efforts of the tobacco manufacturers have been in trying to promote smoking—and the packages themselves—as a sexy product. The aim of that pack design has one purpose: to increase sales. That has the knock-on effect of increasing smoking. People who are...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: New Clause 10 (25 Jun 2009)

Sandra Gidley: ...an adult product that should be sold only to adults. The evidence base for the effect on children is limited, which is a shame because the Bill has been touted as introducing measures to reduce smoking by children. There is a need to curtail further the impact of cigarettes; this new clause seeks to do that. The pack would retain the brand name of the product, which would be displayed in a...

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

Sandra Gidley: ...taxation of tobacco products over that length of time. Can he elaborate on how that fits into the picture? I find it very difficult to tease out the details. For example, there was an increase in smoking rates after the taxation went down.

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

Sandra Gidley: ...real issues. Many areas of the Bill deserve our consideration, and I will start with tobacco. I want to put on record my personal baggage in this regard. My father died of lung cancer. He had never smoked in his life, but he was surrounded by smokers. He was also a newsagent. In thinking through these issues, I have looked carefully at all sides of the argument, but when it comes to a...

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

Sandra Gidley: .... Gentleman listens to the rest of my speech, perhaps he will rethink his argument. I do not think that the studies he cites are quite that large. The bottom line is that, whatever we think about smoking, tobacco is a legal product that can be bought by consenting adults, yet we are planning to restrict its display even more than we restrict that of pornographic material. That seems to be...

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

Sandra Gidley: ...of pharmaceutical services, needs assessments are essential. That is not about preventing dispensing doctors from doing anything; it is more about giving the public more access to, for instance, smoking-cessation services. I hope that, in the long term, it will mean that when an application is made to open a new pharmacy, the primary care trust will have some control over what happens and...

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Sandra Gidley: ...within 20 minutes of at least one pharmacy and I echo the hon. Gentleman's comment that pharmacy is currently an under-utilised resource. In addition to vascular checks, pharmacies can help with smoking cessation—which was mentioned just now by the hon. Member for North-West Leicestershire (David Taylor)—diabetes screening and management and weight management services. They...

Prayers: Voting Age (Reduction) Bill (6 Jun 2008) has video

Sandra Gidley: I am a little worried by the example that the hon. Gentleman has just given. Young people often start smoking illegally at a much earlier age, but I am not aware of anyone voting illegally under the age of 18. I do not think that his analogy was terribly helpful.

Written Answers — Health: Alcoholic Drinks: Females (26 Jul 2007)

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of smoke-free pubs on levels of binge drinking by women.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Health Hazards (26 Jul 2007)

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the incidence of smoking-related diseases including (a) lung cancer, (b) heart disease and (c) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was in (i) Hampshire and (ii) England in each year since 1997.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Public Expenditure (26 Jul 2007)

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measures his Department has put in place to monitor the spending by local authorities of money allocated by his Department to enforce the smoking ban.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Death (25 Jul 2007)

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many deaths there were in (a) England, (b) Hampshire and (c) Southampton as a result of (i) the consumption of alcohol and (ii) smoking in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Health: Obesity (23 Jul 2007)

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his most recent estimate is of the (a) obesity and (b) smoking rate in (i) England, (ii) Hampshire and (iii) Southampton.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (23 Jul 2007)

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the percentage of the population of (a) Hampshire, (b) England and (c) Southampton that smoke, broken down by (i) sex, (ii) age, (iii) religion and (iv) NHS trust.