Passive smoking is workplace killer Pressure mounted on Britain on Monday to take action on __1__ smoking with new research showing second-hand smoke__2__ about one worker each week in the hospitality industry. Professor Konrad Jamrozik,of Imperial College in London,told a conference on environmental tobacco that second-hand__3__kills 49 employees in pubs,bars,restaurants and hotels each year and contributes to 700 deaths from lung cancer,heart__4__ and stroke across the total national work force. Exposure in the hospitality__5__at work outweighs the consequences of exposure of living__6__ a smoker for those staff, Jamrozik said in an interview. Other__7__have measured the levels of exposure to passive smoking but Jamrozik calculated how it would translate into avoidable deaths. His findings are__8__ on the number of people working in the hospitality industry in Britain.their exposure to second.hand smoke and their__9__of dying from it. Jamrozik said me findings would apply to __10__countries in Europe because, to a greater or__11__extent,levels of smoking in the community are similar. Professor Carol Black,president of the Royal College of Physicians,who sponsored the meeting.said the research is proof of the need for a ban on smoking in __12__places. Environmental tobacco smoke in pubs,bars,restaurants and other public places is__13__ damaging to the health of employees as well as the general public,she said in a statement. |