Tobacco Advertising And Low Earners

EDM number 150 in 1992-93, proposed by Paul Flynn on 02/06/1992.

That this House welcomes the revelation in the magazine, Family Doctor, in a letter from Christopher Whitehouse, described as a former secretary to the honourable Member for Macclesfield, who writes that the greatest hidden cost of a ban on tobacco advertising would be `the future burden of paying the pensions and health care costs of those low earners in the future who will no longer die from tobacco-related illness'; and invites the Government to deny that their opposition to a ban on tobacco advertising is based on a desire that people on low wages should die young.

This motion has been signed by a total of 48 MPs.