Results 1-11 of 11 for smoking speaker:Brooks Newmark

Bill Presented: Cervical Cancer (Minimum Age for Screening) (14 Oct 2009) has video

Brooks Newmark: ...needs to move with the times and be realistic about changing lifestyles. Young women are now more at risk from cervical cancer than ever before, as the contributory causes of unprotected sex and smoking are on the rise. At some point in their lifetimes, 75 per cent. of sexually active men and women come into contact with the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer. With British teenagers now...

Bill Presented: Stroke Services (3 Jun 2009) has video

Brooks Newmark: ...it is not enough to just to treat the symptom of the problem, as its cause is also important. We can reduce the likelihood of a stroke through preventive work on high blood pressure, irregular heartbeats and smoking, for example. That alone could prevent thousands of strokes each year, saving not only many families from having to watch a loved one suffer, but millions of pounds each year...

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Brooks Newmark: ...taxes on alcohol and tobacco are highly regressive. Unfortunately, the poorer members of our society—the less well-off—spend a higher proportion of their income, their wealth or their benefits on smoking, driving, alcohol and other such activities. The Conservatives have come up with what I hope is a more creative way of targeting this, which involves targeting alcopops. I...

Developing Country Debt (Restriction of Recovery): Finance Bill (6 May 2009) has video

Brooks Newmark: ...might want to address is the fact that the increases are regressive, because they hurt the poorest people in society, who spend a larger proportion of their wealth on things such as drinking, smoking and driving. A second point is that such increases do not really change behaviour, which is what the Government are trying to do, but are just an extra means for the Government to try to fill...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: (Except clauses 1, 3, 7, 8, 12, 20, 21, 25, 67 and 81 to 84, schedules 1, 18, 22 and 23, and new clauses relating to microgeneration) - Clause 6 (10 May 2007)

Brooks Newmark: I wanted only to make a short quip: the Minister said that hon. Members supported the legislation, but was that before or after they went down to the smoking room?

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: (Except clauses 1, 3, 7, 8, 12, 20, 21, 25, 67 and 81 to 84, schedules 1, 18, 22 and 23, and new clauses relating to microgeneration) - Clause 6 (10 May 2007)

Brooks Newmark: To carry on my hon. Friend’s theme, the White Paper “Smoking Kills”, to which I referred, said that the Government’s objectives were to help existing smokers to quit the habit and to help children and young people to avoid becoming addicted in the first place. If, as he suggests, more and more people, particularly children, are using hand-rolled tobacco as an...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 6 (10 May 2007)

Brooks Newmark: ...them later when questioning the Minister. The background note begins by saying: “Keeping tobacco prices high is one of a number of measures set out in the Government White Paper on tobacco, Smoking Kills, intended to help existing smokers quit the habit”. The Government are seeking, in part at least, to change behaviour. I appreciate that there are other ways of trying to...

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 12 (11 May 2006)

Brooks Newmark: ...£1,780, which is an almost 200 per cent.  increase. Is that still going through, or have I misunderstood the rate increase for those machines? I raise this issue because, as we all know, following the smoking ban, working men’s clubs and political and community clubs feel that they will find business difficult. This measure seems to be another nail in the coffin of such...

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No.2) Bill: Clause 1 (9 May 2006)

Brooks Newmark: ...that. My second point has to do with the analysis of elasticity of demand and pricing, which the Financial Secretary probably has in hand in one of the documents that he was waving about. Action on Smoking and Health has quite correctly pointed out that tobacco price rises are key in discouraging individuals from smoking, but the problem with price rises, as my hon. Friend said, is that...

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No.2) Bill: Clause 1 (9 May 2006)

Brooks Newmark: As always, my hon. Friend makes an excellent point. As a member of the Select Committee on Science and Technology, I know that there is an addictive element to smoking cigarettes. I believe that increasing prices will encourage those with extremely addictive personalities—or, I should say, those who are affected more strongly than others by cigarettes—to go to the black market to...

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No.2) Bill: Clause 1 (9 May 2006)

Brooks Newmark: ..., but I should be most interested to hear the Minister’s response to the point made earlier about the analysis of elasticity. What is the Government’s analysis of the effect on reducing smoking of each 1p increase in duty? It would be extremely interesting to hear that.