I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman's eloquent speech, but I can give him an example much closer to home. I draw his attention to the study published in the British Medical Journal demonstrating how a single episode of ““Casualty”” showing an attempted suicide by an overdose of paracetamol led directly to a large number of similar suicide attempts over the next month. More than a fifth of the people involved cited that episode of the television programme as one of the things that led them—fortunately unsuccessfully—to try to commit suicide.
British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Julian Brazier
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 29 February 2008.
It occurred during Debate on bills on British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill.
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