Results 1-9 of 9 for smoking speaker:Mr Adrian Flook

Home Affairs (29 Nov 2004)

Mr Adrian Flook: ...property crime is drug-related. Perhaps the biggest, loud and clear message to many young people has been that cannabis has been downgraded to a class C drug. I accept that not all those who have smoked, will continue to smoke or will ever smoke cannabis will end up as class A drug addicts—that is absolutely not the case. However, it is 100 per cent. the case that every heroin addict...

Anti-social Behaviour Bill: New Clause (17 Nov 2003)

Mr Adrian Flook: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I was referring to the fact that his name will be associated not with a private Member's Bill, but with a Bill on antisocial behaviour. With his predilection for smoking, he would know something about that. The problem of high hedges is not as gripping an issue in the Taunton constituency as it is in the leafy suburbs of Ealing, but it is nevertheless an...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 13 - Application by individual (28 Jan 2003)

Mr Adrian Flook: ...drove a car when under the influence of a certain amount of alcohol, they would have a licence to kill in many respects. People can ride a moped or drive an invalid carriage at 16. They can buy and smoke cigarettes—and kill themselves slowly—at 16. They can leave school at 16 and, importantly, join the Army, where they can go through basic training and learn how to kill. People...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] — New Clause 2 — Commission of body to study the effects of Act (21 Oct 2002)

Mr Adrian Flook: First, I declare an interest, which can be found in the Register of Members' Interests. I also declare an interest as a heavy ex-smoker who smoked well over 30 a day for about 10 years. I did not need hypnosis to give up. Unlike the hon. Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (James Purnell), however, I found it so easy to give up 30 a day that I would not dare take it up again. As a neighbour of...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] — New Clause 2 — Commission of body to study the effects of Act (21 Oct 2002)

Mr Adrian Flook: There may well be no contest for the hon. Gentleman who, if memory serves me right, smokes a particularly wicked brand of tobacco. It is of great concern—[Interruption.]

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

Mr Adrian Flook: It might well do; that is in the register. More interestingly, I was a heavy smoker—up to 30 fags a day for 13 years—but I quit because of the damage that I know smoking does to the liver as opposed to just the lungs. My uncle, prior to his death, was a heavy smoker and a non-occasional drinker; people cannot be both. Being the son of a wine merchant, I thought it wise to do my...

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

Mr Adrian Flook: As I have said, ASH thinks that advertising encourages children to smoke. The cigarette advertising companies have said that they will not advertise to those children—[Interruption.] Let me put it another way. A voluntary agreement has been reached by Ministers. Why have they repeatedly refused to listen to the advertising companies and the tobacco manufacturers when they have...

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

Mr Adrian Flook: ...the age of 16 it is possible to marry—to choose the person with whom you will live for the rest of your life. Should it not be possible for people to decide voluntarily at that age whether to smoke? Labour Members often quote statistics, but one fact we have not heard is that it is possible to smoke until the age of 30, then give up and suffer no long-term health consequences....

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

Mr Adrian Flook: ...look after themselves. I find it unfortunate that the Bill will lead to increased censorship, enhance red tape and restrict freedom to make one's own decisions. It will not reduce smuggling, lessen smoking by children or lower total consumption.