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Health Bill

The noble Lord has spoken at some length. I was looking through the list of amendments while he was speaking. If he is so concerned about the emergency treatment of someone who has a coronary while they are smoking a cigarette, why is there no amendment to that effect? I wonder whether that does not simply reinforce the argument that such issues need to be dealt with in regulations with a code of practice for the implementation of the Bill. You cannot prescribe on the face of the Bill for every type of small scenario, such as the one that he gave us of someone having a coronary. I personally do not believe that any ambulance service would refuse to attempt to save life in the event of someone in the process of smoking a cigarette having a coronary, wherever they are. They would also put the cigarette out because it would be a fire hazard. However, such things do not feature in these amendments and are a good argument for precisely why making such an amendment to the Bill would be unhelpful, which reinforces the points made by my noble friend Lord Walton.