Results 1-20 of 21 for smoking speaker:Bob Spink

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

Bob Spink: The right hon. Gentleman is making some excellent points. He mentioned that half the people who take up smoking will eventually die from it, but has he made any estimate of the number of children, who are now taking up smoking in far too great a number because of the availability of cigarettes, vending machines and suchlike, who will eventually die from this filthy habit? He is making some...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Motor Vehicles (14 Sep 2009)

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department takes to enforce legislation on smoking in vehicles used for business purposes; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Public Places (14 Sep 2009)

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) fines, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions there have been against managers or occupants of smoke-free premises for (i) failure to display no-smoking signs and (ii) failure to prevent smoking in a smoke-free place; and if he will make a statement.

[Janet Anderson in the Chair] — Anti-Drug Awareness (7 Oct 2008)

Bob Spink: ...of the disaster that drugs can cause families and society—could be very effective. Finally, I shall make three brief points. First, the hon. Member for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) rightly raised the issue of smoking, particularly among teenage girls, which is not a problem that is going away. We must tackle it and address it more firmly if we can, particularly through parents,...

Deferred Division No. 85: Easter Adjournment (29 Mar 2007)

Bob Spink: ...with the German authorities, followed up with an e-mail giving the declaration's very scant content. Neither national Parliaments nor the European Parliament had sight of the wording. That conspiratorial, smoke-filled-room approach is no way to run a chicken shed, let alone a group of countries. No people of any member state have been consulted, even though a new EU constitution has major...

Royal Assent: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (27 Mar 2007)

Bob Spink: My hon. Friend talks about smoke, and he said that the Chancellor was scrapping the 10p rate of income tax. In fact, he is doing no such thing: instead, he is doubling the 10p rate to 20p.

Business of the House: Legislative Process (1 Nov 2006)

Bob Spink: I want to respond to the hon. Gentleman's remarks about programme motions. I am sure that he wants to avoid the possibility of cosy arrangements being made between party managers in smoke-filled rooms, which impedes this House's ability to hold the Executive to account.

Point of Order: Whitsun Adjournment (25 May 2006)

Bob Spink: ...on planning, or on the sale—or the suggested giveaway—of major public assets, or on the award of contracts. Such decisions should be taken transparently in the council chamber, not in smoke-filled back rooms by a self-selected group of elected and unelected individuals. This is quite a sinister development. The public know about it, however—hence the extraordinary Castle...

Points of Order: Misuse of Drugs (Reclassification of Methylamphetamine) (9 May 2006)

Bob Spink: ...drugs called amphetamines that act on the brain and nervous system. It is produced in tablet, powder or crystalline form. It is taken orally, snorted or injected, but unlike amphetamine, it can be smoked. The term "crystal meth" is often used for the purer crystalline form. The drug's street names include "yaba" for tablet form, "ice", "glass", "Tina", "Christine" and "Nazi crank". It was...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Bob Spink: ...he agree that, for the Bill to be more effective, we need clarity on the position of private members' clubs, especially those that serve food, and the way in which they can hold annual ballots on smoke-free places in those clubs?

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Smoke Alarms (4 Oct 2004)

Dr Bob Spink: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what his policy is on encouraging further take-up of smoke alarms in domestic properties; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Transport: Taxis (10 Jul 2003)

Dr Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) if he will make a statement on the means by which (a) black cab drivers and (b) private hire taxi drivers can prevent passengers from smoking in their vehicles; (2) if he will bring forward legislation to enable taxi drivers to enforce a no smoking policy on passengers in their vehicles; (3) what research he has commissioned into the health...

Confiscation of Alcohol (Young Persons) (15 Jan 2003)

Dr Bob Spink: ...in this place—I shall just call her Rosemary, however—bravely wrote to me to say: XThe recent change in law has undoubtedly confused youngsters in believing that it is now legal to smoke cannabis in public. I have observed over the past weekend two separate groups of youngsters in the bus shelter outside our house so doing . . . I wonder how many of them would actually indulge...

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)

Dr Bob Spink: ...problem is that it is long overdue. I am trying to grasp my hon. Friend's argument and hope that he will explain how the new clause would help us to reduce the number of young people who take up smoking at 16, 17 and 18. I cannot understand how it would deliver that result and, if it does not, I am sceptical about it.

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

Dr Bob Spink: Surely the market is not declining among young people. It should be our aim to stop young people taking up smoking, which is what advertising encourages them to do.

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

Dr Bob Spink: Surely it is disingenuous for anyone to argue that advertising does not entice young people into smoking. Of course it does. That is simple common sense. Does the hon. Lady agree that it would be irresponsible for parents to encourage their child to smoke? Does it not follow that all parents should welcome any measure that the House can take to help them stop their children smoking?

Prayers: Improving Schools Programme (1 Nov 1996)

Dr Bob Spink: ...moral issues in the House and elsewhere for many years—religious education, the need for a disciplined framework in which children can learn, teaching right from wrong, the evil of child smoking and drugs, the availability of pornographic and violent materials and their impact on our children. But one moral issue stands above all others—the value, sanctity and dignity of human...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill (11 Feb 1994)

Dr Bob Spink: ...of freedom, my hon. Friend believes that it carries with it a certain responsibility. What action does he propose to prevent young people who do not make responsible decisions from taking up smoking in the first place?

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill (11 Feb 1994)

Dr Bob Spink: ...am pleased that my right hon. Friend recognises that parental responsibility is the key factor in this equation. The major aim of the Bill must be to prevent people of 15 and younger from starting smoking. Is my right hon. Friend aware that even though cigarette advertisements have not been allowed on television in this country since 1965, Sir Donald Maitland, the chairman of the Health...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill (11 Feb 1994)

Dr Bob Spink: ...'s Bill, that it is not a matter for party politics, and that the House should be clear on that? Secondly, does he agree that his Bill is sincerely aimed at reducing and stopping the take-up of smoking among 15-year-olds and those below that age? If he does agree, it is a wholly laudable, key aim to the Bill, since, if those 15-year-olds smoke for 40 years and do not die of heart disease...