Results 1-7 of 7 for smoking speaker:Ben Wallace

Scottish Parliament: Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke (3 Oct 2002)

Ben Wallace: ...to run mini-health services. His party also believes in a hypothecated tax. We will not take lectures on structural reform from the Liberal Democrats. We acknowledge that poverty problems, such as smoking and diet, must be solved. I have often commended the Executive for some of its initiatives to improve health, especially those that are aimed at the young. We will strongly support moves...

Scottish Parliament: Cancer Strategy (30 May 2002)

Ben Wallace: ...from cancer? The points made by George Lyon and Des McNulty about prevention could not have been put better. Prevention is obviously the way forward. I am an ex-smoker, who always thought that smoking was none of my business, and stood back from it. I am still pretty much of that view, but I am worried by having read more of the technical data on how damaging to the population smoking...

Scottish Parliament written answers — Smoking: Smoking (4 Apr 2002)

Ben Wallace: To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual adult rates of smoking were in each year from 1995 to date.

Scottish Parliament: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (17 Jan 2001)

Ben Wallace: ...are under age, and more enforcement. Perhaps more of the issues should be dealt with in this chamber. There is no doubt that there is a desire among Conservative members to reduce the incidence of smoking. However, we should remember that, in today's world, in which the Government seems to want to control everything, tobacco is still a legal commodity. Many people smoke because they want...

Scottish Parliament written answers — Smoking: Smoking (17 Jan 2001)

Ben Wallace: To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will implement the British Medical Association’s recommendation that the smoking cessation drug Zyban be issued, with appropriate guidance for both doctors and patients.

Scottish Parliament: Public Health (21 Sep 2000)

Ben Wallace: ...of society; they are from every section of society. On Friday and Saturday nights, there is a binge on alcohol and misuse of substances. As we have heard, there is a general increase in teenage smoking. That, again, is as much a generational thing as a poverty thing. Magazines such as GQ and Loaded portray a lifestyle that involves those habits without pointing out the downside. We must...

Scottish Parliament: Tobacco Sales (24 Nov 1999)

Ben Wallace: I point out to Fergus Ewing, in response to his comment about Margaret Thatcher, that Irene Oldfather's motion is underpinned by an all-party belief in the need to prevent smoking and the damage it causes. I am grateful to Irene Oldfather for lodging a motion that is so good that I am able to support it fully. Many of us hold different views on smoking in public places and on how smoking...