asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether in view of the recent reports on smoking and lung cancer, he will call a conference of local health authorities with a view to recommending a ban on smoking in places of public entertainment.

Wider restriction of smoking in public places was one of the recommendations in the recent Report from the Royal College of Physicians which are now under consideration by the Government.

Will the hon. Gentleman call the attention of his colleagues to the well-known fact that example is better than precept? If the Government as a whole announced to the public that they were stopping smoking, does he not think that that might have a great effect on the country?

Order. I do not think that we can link the Government with "places of public entertainment".