My hon. Friend has described the long path that we have followed over the past decade and more. Is she aware that it is 40 years since the lead story in the Daily Mirror was headlined ““Shock plan to ban smoking in public””? There was a Labour Government at the time, and there have been at least two others in our progress to this point. It is an historic matter to get from that headline to the public health improvements that the Bill will secure.
Health Bill
Proceeding contribution from
David Leslie Taylor
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 14 February 2006.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Health Bill.
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