Member

I want to say a brief word about filters because I support Amendment 33 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett. Filters of any kind are of no benefit whatever. In fact, as the noble Baroness said, they are all a fraud—one of many fraudulent devices that originate from the tobacco industry as it tries to hide the evil it does. They make people feel that smoking with a filter is somehow safer. It is not. One manufacturer of filters, Greenbutts, has run a large lobbying campaign to get rival products banned. All filters should be banned. None of them do any good. They all mislead smokers, who think that they reduce harm. We should ban them all and not allow any one company to benefit from people who smoke tobacco.