Maxwell attended Kings Park Secondary School before graduating from Glasgow College of Technology with a BA Honours Social Sciences.

[4] The Scottish Executive at first opposed this proposal, but were eventually forced to accept the idea after it received widespread support.

During the 2003–2007 session of Parliament he was a member of six Parliamentary cross party groups; Tobacco Control, Sport, Contemporary Scottish Music Industry, Culture and Media, Cancer and Food.

In November 2006 he was made Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland for his work on the introduction of the ban on smoking in public places.

[7] In a close contest, Conservative Jackson Carlaw won the seat and Labour's Ken Macintosh was pushed into third.

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