Christina McKelvie: ...has a stall just outside the chamber this week and has been testing all of our neurons. I am pleased to say that I got 9.5 out of 10—I got less than full marks because I did not know that smoking was good for someone with Parkinson’s disease, but there you go.
Christina McKelvie: ...social attitudes is to make the behaviour completely unacceptable, with decent education at the earliest stage possible. It might seem like a trivial comparison, but let us look at how unacceptable smoking has become. Legislation kick-started that, but behaviour has turned the law into very good practice. Another law that seeks to change the cultural environment is Clare’s law, which has...
Christina McKelvie: ..., fire deaths increased to the same level as in 1959, and the number has increased further since. None of us wants that to continue. Stewart Maxwell described the causes of fires and talked about smoking. The increase is a worrying development, and even more so when we consider that the number of fires has continued to decline. That is a salient point—the number of fires has declined,...