Is it not a fact that this is another evasive decision on the part of the Minister for Health? He knows well that in relation to tobacco smoking and in relation to alcoholism the first and most important thing he ought to do is to stop advertising them. He is in a position to do so at present and he knows well that he should. Would he not agree that he must stop advertising in relation to both these things both in newspapers and on television to the extent that it is happening? It is evading the issue again.

Neither of these two questions deals with the matter of advertising at all, so to that extent——

He is establishing a study.

——it is not I who am being evasive. On the question of advertising I have met the commercial interests involved and made very specific proposals to them about the restraint of advertising, and I intend to bring this matter to a conclusion in the very immediate future.

Could he give any indication as to when is the immediate future? Is it a week, a month, six months, a year?

I certainly hope to have a decision within a matter of weeks.