Health Bill

The noble Lord, Lord Faulkner, alleged that children might be at risk from people smoking in sports stadiums open to the elements. If there is any validity in that claim, does he not agree that the risk must be minuscule compared with the risk presented to children who are exposed to their parents’ or guardians’ smoke in private homes—a risk that is likely to be much magnified now that their parents or guardians will not be able to smoke in pubs and so on? I would have thought that that would greatly outweigh any tiny risk that there might be to children in sports stadiums. Secondly, I cannot resist mentioning Roy Castle. The noble Lord knows a great deal more about him than I do, but as I understand it the gentleman died of lung cancer, although he was a non-smoker but worked in smoky places. Can the noble Lord say whether the death certificate mentioned second-hand smoke as a contributing cause of his death? More importantly, does he not agree that it is quite possible for people to contract lung cancer who have never been anywhere near a smouldering cigarette in their lives?