CIGARETTES (ENDING OF TELEVISION ADVERTISING)

HC Deb 08 February 1965 vol 706 c46

Mr. English

I ask leave, Mr. Speaker, to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9 for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely, the effects of the ban, announced this day, upon the advertising of cigarettes on television in continuing and increasing expenditure upon the advertising of cigarettes in other media and in causing redundancy in the tobacco industry without compensation to the persons involved.

Mr. Speaker

The hon. Member asks leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9 for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely, the effects of the ban, announced this day, upon the advertising of cigarettes on television in continuing and increasing expenditure upon the advertising of cigarettes in other media and in causing redundancy in the tobacco industry without compensation to the persons involved. I regret that I cannot accede to the right hon. Member's application.