Results 1-13 of 13 for smoking speaker:John Pugh

Local Health Services and Democratic Involvement (21 Oct 2009) has video

John Pugh: ...goes to war, who is taxed, who has power and who does not. We can make decisions about people's daily behaviour: what they may say, whom they may marry, what they may buy and sell, where they may smoke and what, but not about what happens in the local NHS in their area. Those decisions are made by enlightened quangos or trusts, and they are usually a combination of medical experts and...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 22 (24 Jun 2009)

John Pugh: Clearly, it would be a disincentive for people to smoke if they had to leave the premises to get cigarettes. On a personal note, my son recently gave up smoking. The most difficult situation for smokers when they have given up is after they have had a few pints and they are relaxed, so if we are looking at a measure that will prevent people from going back to smoking, banning the machines is...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 21 (24 Jun 2009)

John Pugh: ...parties and even within health teams. One of the reasons I am on this Bill is that I reduced the variation that might otherwise have occurred if other personnel had been put on it. When the ban on smoking in public places was introduced, the argument was largely about secondary or passive smoking, and the rights of people not to be affected by other people’s smoke, but I think that...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 22 (23 Jun 2009)

John Pugh: Clearly, it would be a disincentive for people to smoke if they had to leave the premises to get cigarettes. On a personal note, my son recently gave up smoking. The most difficult situation for smokers when they have given up is after they have had a few pints and they are relaxed, so if we are looking at a measure that will prevent people from going back to smoking, banning the machines is...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 21 (23 Jun 2009)

John Pugh: ...parties and even within health teams. One of the reasons I am on this Bill is that I reduced the variation that might otherwise have occurred if other personnel had been put on it. When the ban on smoking in public places was introduced, the argument was largely about secondary or passive smoking, and the rights of people not to be affected by other people’s smoke, but I think that...

Pub Ownership (28 Apr 2009)

John Pugh: ...should have been confirmed by the sticking grip of the floorboards as we approached the bar and the baleful glance of the locals, which was somewhat reminiscent of "The League of Gentlemen". The barmaid smoking behind the bar dismissed the thought of food ever being present as ridiculous and we sat on rickety chairs at a less than clean table with a chipped ashtray on it. We will draw a...

Health Inequalities — [Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] (18 Mar 2009)

John Pugh: ...are only partly an issue of NHS resources. They are also, as the right hon. Member for Oxford, East (Mr. Smith) said, an issue of housing, education, cultural factors in some areas, nutrition, smoking and drinking habits, and employment history—or lack of it. As unemployment goes up, health outcomes will undoubtedly get worse. Obviously, the NHS alone cannot address a problem of...

Primary Care Trusts (Exceptional Cases) (29 Apr 2008)

John Pugh: ...victim, the heart attack patient or the victim of a life-threatening disease. Some prioritisation, however, can be contentious. The treatment of a drug user, a reckless individual, those with a smoking-related disease, victims of irreversible, incurable conditions that nobody knows what to do with, and those in need of cosmetic surgery can be set against therapies for common and widespread...

[Mr. David Amess in the Chair] — Refuse Collection (28 Feb 2008)

John Pugh: ...that it does not significantly boost recycling rates; the expected jump in rates does not happen. That is the fact; but the same is true of the connection that can be made between lung cancer and smoking. People do not need to smoke to get lung cancer; it is not a necessary condition. Furthermore, some people who smoke, such as my 86-year-old aunt, who has smoked 20 a day since she was...

Points of Order: Public Health (England) (22 Feb 2007)

John Pugh: ...amounts to. That is a fairly evident conclusion that the whole House would share. I have absolutely no problem either with the state removing hindrances to good health. I firmly supported the smoking ban in public places, not simply because it got rid of—or will get rid of—passive smoking, but because it removes hindrances in the way of people who want to give up smoking. It...

[Mr. Eric Illsley in the Chair] — Medical and Clinical Practice (14 Dec 2006)

John Pugh: .... As always throughout history, though, many of the big effects, benefits and challenges to the therapeutic sector come from the public health sector. The modern demons of obesity, drunkenness and smoking are fast replacing the ancient demons of poor sanitation and insufficient nutrition. I think that the outline account that I have given of the development of medical services would...

Greener Fuels (Taxation) (8 Mar 2006)

John Pugh: ...succeeds in reducing the revenue that it would normally receive. I sometimes think that it should, in its own interests, allow us to pursue our own path to perdition, by letting us carry on smoking, drinking, gambling and polluting, thus providing itself with a stable income base, or that it should adopt the philosophy of sad resignation. In recent times, however, the Treasury has had a...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 57 - Relief for community amateur sports clubs (23 May 2002)

Mr John Pugh: ...they do not regard as healthy recreation. For example, snooker is excluded because, although it has a benefit for people's mental health and amusement, incidental by-products, such as drinking and smoking, are not good for individual health. [Hon. Members: ''What about Rugby?''] I was coming to that. Such sports can create a net disadvantage to the health service. Similarly, the...