[Cherie]

so she voted for overturning the ban on smoking indoors

is she really the right person for the job if the is so careless with other peoples health?

wait for the poll

[Cherie]

I knew you would be in there Joey

[joeysteele]

No, in my view she is a heartless, ignorant horrible individual.

She was cruelly heartless as work and pensions secretary.

It's either a really bad joke or an obscenity she is made Health secretary.
Awful.

However along with her now PM they both make a real gruesome twosome.

[bots]

i cant think of a worse role model to be in the job .... i mean its so obvious, it's taking the piss out of the role

Bring back shagger, and i never thought i would say that

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I knew you would be in there Joey

I have never liked her Cherie.
How she's an MP never mind a Minister and unbelievably appointed as deputy PM too, is beyond ALL my understanding.

[Crimson Dynamo]

[MTVN]

Its not a fitness contest

Don't see what her personal health has to do with the main challenges of ambulance delays, backlogs, and access to doctors and dentists

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

No, in my view she is a heartless, ignorant horrible individual.

She was cruelly heartless as work and pensions secretary.

It's either a really bad joke or an obscenity she is made Health secretary.
Awful.

However along with her now PM they both make a real gruesome twosome.

When she said "it's not my job to worry about people in the UK starving to death."

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I have never liked her Cherie.
How she's an MP never mind a Minister and unbelievably appointed as deputy PM too, is beyond ALL my understanding.

I literally think we are being trolled.



What effect did the smoking ban have?
“Directly after the legislation, more people were trying to quit smoking, and more people succeeded because it’s much easier to avoid those situations,” says Hazel Cheeseman, Director of Policy at ASH (Action on Smoking and Health).

Research in the British Medical Journal estimated there were 1,200 fewer hospital admissions for heart attacks in the year following the ban – improved air quality and fewer smokers will have contributed to this.

In 2006, 22 per cent of adults smoked, whereas in the latest statistics (2015) 18 per cent did. This is part of a gradual decline in UK smoking rates since 1974, when the government first began gathering this data.

In UK bars before the ban, air pollution from cigarette smoke was much higher than the ‘unhealthy’ threshold for outdoor air quality (set by the US Environmental Protection Agency), a University of Bath study found. Levels in Scottish and Welsh bars were often twice as high as in English bars. After the ban, air pollution in UK bars reduced by as much as 93 per cent.

After the ban, air pollution in UK bars reduced by as much as 93 per cent

“There was concern that if people can’t go to the pub and smoke they might stay home and smoke around their children, but the opposite has been true,” says Hazel. “We’ve seen a great shift to people smoking outside, so most children in the UK now live in smoke-free homes.”

A Glasgow University study showed that, before the smoking ban, the number of hospital admissions of children with asthma was increasing on average by five per cent each year in Scotland. In the three years after the ban, admissions decreased 18 per cent per year.

In the three months after the ban there was a 6.3 per cent drop in the volume of cigarettes sold in England.

As you can in our ten year timeline, the smoking ban is one of a series of moves to discourage smoking. “The ban is part of a trend towards policies that denormalise smoking,” Toby says. “It helped create a shift in culture.”

The BHF is proud to have campaigned to reduce the use and harm of tobacco, working closely with ASH. We’re active members of the Smokefree Action Coalition, and continue to fund research into the link between air pollution and premature death. Hazel says: “The value of the BHF’s continued support and funding cannot be overestimated.”

[The Slim Reaper]

A previous health sec that wasn't held to the standards that TC is.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Its not a fitness contest

Don't see what her personal health has to do with the main challenges of ambulance delays, backlogs, and access to doctors and dentists

This is not about her personal health, it is about her voting to overturn the indoor smoking ban see the blurb from the BHF above

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

A previous health sec that wasn't held to the standards that TC is.

Again read the OP this has nothing to do with what she does personally

[Cherie]

so she voted for overturning the ban on smoking indoors

is she really the right person for the job if the is so careless with other peoples health?



for those who did not read the OP

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Cherie

This is not about her personal health, it is about her voting to overturn the indoor smoking ban see the blurb from the BHF above

I don't think a historical vote on that is very relevant to the main health challenges right now either though

When was that vote?

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Originally Posted by Cherie

Again read the OP this has nothing to do with what she does personally

.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

A previous health sec that wasn't held to the standards that TC is.

I just checked when he was Health Secretary 1988.....times have moved on from then, smoking was much more acceptable for a start

[bots]

and he was an eccentric fool even then

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

.

that is just a picture of her for those who dont know her

[Crimson Dynamo]

It was the appointment of Ray Cistpig as Minister for Equalities that had me concerned but he did go to Eton so I think he will be ok - pic below

Spoiler:

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I don't think a historical vote on that is very relevant to the main health challenges right now either though

When was that vote?

struggling to find the date

[bots]

was about 15 years ago

[Cherie]

I would love to be proved wrong and she will be great in the job but I think you need to have a modicum of interest in health to be any good.

Anyway time will tell

[bots]

JRM being in charge of green energy is the biggest piss take though i think

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Cherie

that is just a picture of her for those who dont know her

Of course, you are never selective

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

I hope she does a Good job


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