OPEN LETTER TO CAROLINE FLINT - ON SCREEN SMOKING BAN sent 5 may 2006

With ref. to the previous post please see the following letter sent to Caroline Flint 5 May 2006.


From :
alex garcia
Sent :
05 May 2006 17:16:56
To :
flintc@parliament.uk
CC :
chrisdaviesmep@cix.co.uk, info@sajjadkarim.org.uk
Subject :
OPEN LETTER TO CAROLINE FLINT (public health minister) - ON SCREEN SMOKING BAN.


URGENT
5 May 2006
Caroline Flint, Public Health Minister, flintc@parliament.uk

OPEN LETTER TO CAROLINE FLINT (Public Health Minister)

Dear Madam,

With ref. to recent press reports that you intend to exempt on-stage and on-screen smoking from the "smoking in public places ban."


1. Parliament on an open vote declared there were to be no exemptions on the “ban on smoking in public places” and you do not have the authority to overturn that decision.

2. The 2002 Tobacco Advertising and promotion Act. “prohibits anything done that has the purpose or effect of promoting a tobacco product.” (It is well documented that on screen smoking is the greatest cause of children starting to smoke. 90% of smokers become addicted whilst children.)


3. The World Health Organisation forecast one billion tobacco deaths this century. (That’s 15 times greater than the total war deaths of the entire 20th century. Genocide excluded).

4. On screen smoking is the catalyst of this ensuing holocaust.

5. Your duty as Public Health Minister is to protect public health not to protect the tobacco industry and their agents.

Yours sincerely,
Stuart Holmes. Anti-smoking campaigner. c.c. press.