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Baroness Finlay - The Tobacco Industry is Morally Reprehensible

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Channel: OxfordUnion · 2015 · News & Politics

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The Motion: This House Believes the Tobacco Industry is Morally Reprehensible. 

Ilora Gillian Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, is a Welsh doctor, professor of palliative medicine, and an Independent Crossbench member of the House of Lords.

She is a past president of the Royal Society of Medicine. She is a professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University School of Medicine, and is consultant at the Velindre cancer centre in Cardiff. On 28 June 2001, she was made a life peer as Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, of Llandaff in the county of South Galmorgan.

In 2003 she proposed a bill to ban smoking in public buildings in Wales, three years before it was eventually implemented.

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