division_name: Tobacco and Vapes Bill
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b684.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if you do not care who gets the credit.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b684.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;As Prime Minister I have an obligation to do what I think is the right thing for our country in the long term. And as Conservatives, we have never shirked that responsibility.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b684.3/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We have always been at the front of society, leading it&#8212;&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b684.3/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;And when we have the tools at our disposal&#8230;to do for our children what we all, in our heart of hearts, know is right, we must act, we must lead&#8230;we must put the next generation first.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b692.1/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Under Section 4 of the 2006 Act, the Secretary of State could make regulations to designate additional places as smoke-free provided that they were of the opinion that there was a significant risk persons present in such a place would be exposed to significant quantities of smoke without a smoke-free designation&#8230;Section 5 of the 2006 Act gave the Secretary of State powers to make regulations for vehicles to be smoke-free.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b692.1/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Clause 136 amends the existing power in section 4 of the 2006 Act by omitting the risk condition.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b695.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A more restrictive licensing scheme would be expected to have a greater impact on public health and a greater economic impact on businesses.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b715.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world&#8230;I&#8217;ve done it thousands of times.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b715.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Vaping is an adult quitting aid, not a children&#8217;s toy.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b715.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If you smoke, vaping is much safer; if you don&#8217;t smoke, don&#8217;t vape; marketing vapes to children is utterly unacceptable.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b716.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;any arguments put forward about personal choice or personal freedom make no sense at all when we are talking about children and a highly addictive substance. Smoking is not a free choice; it is an addiction.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="">16 April 2024</phrase>; Vol. 748, c. 208.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b724.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Member States may not&#8230;prohibit or restrict the placing on the market of tobacco or related products&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b724.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The ministry&#8230;therefore considers that a ban on the sale of tobacco and nicotine products to people born in 2010 or later would require an amendment to the European Tobacco Products Directive&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b730.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;without further action, England will miss the smokefree 2030 target by at least 7 years&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b735.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry&#8221;.</p>