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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.7 H2 \3 r+ D- ?8 f. P
Professor Konrad Jamrozik, of Imperial College in London. Told a conference on environmental tobacco that second-hand ____3____ kills 49 employees in pubs. restaurants and hotels each year and contributes to 700 deaths from lung cancer, heart ____4____ and stroke across the total national work force.
9 Z2 v6 X% F, w S' l. e+ R"Exposure in the hospitality ____5____ at work outweights the consequences of exposure of living ____6____ a smoker for those staff," Jamrozik said in an interview.
5 b% f1 R* k' W4 z. a" X0 M bOther ____7____ have measured the levels of exposure to passive smoking but Jamrozik calculated how it would translate into avoidable deaths.
" V! y7 D9 W! @4 K/ g. S7 FHis 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 form it.
7 n" [0 J) g3 D9 E! v" _Jamrozik said the findings would apply to ____10____ countries in Europe because, to a greater or ____11____ extent, levels of smoking in the community are similar.
4 [- {* s0 f& t8 }" t# l# SProfessor Carol Black, president of the Royal College of Physicians. Which sponsored the meeting, said the research is proof of the need for a ban on smoking in ____12____ places.- Z) S2 }, O2 e0 U+ E7 w, [
"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.
. L# D& M% @9 n"Making these places smoke-free not only protects vulnerable staff and the public, it will ____14____ help over 300,000 people in Britain to stop smoking completely." She added.. S3 {; K% m% ]# X- `( t% I+ r
Ireland recently became the first country to introduce a national ban on smoking in public ____15____. New York and parts of Australia have taken similar measures. G7 l4 K$ b4 \' H4 G+ C
1.A. passiveB. naturalC. extensiveD. whole1 W" q1 ~' F4 I' t% w. j
2.A. killsB. hurtsC. woundsD. injures |
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