Passive Smoking Is Workplace Killer- ]# k; _$ r& | U! |- s* S
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.! c: K1 P, b& c" o* u8 ? X' V
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.
' C1 d* t% Q; q7 a& K$ U"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.
" ~# _0 ^+ E: { L& X5 E) u. tOther ____7____ have measured the levels of exposure to passive smoking but Jamrozik calculated how it would translate into avoidable deaths.
& p3 n' X, w4 {7 l7 qHis 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./ L$ v& g* { F- Q2 O7 ]4 P
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.
) [+ V+ H: U- v9 ^5 aProfessor 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.
5 b- k% e: O3 {: ?" ]7 T"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.# V6 z7 L; q k" R$ u
"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.
* |8 M5 j3 f+ x/ {" k i0 mIreland 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.; g, K n Q; p, R4 q- ]' ~
1.A. passiveB. naturalC. extensiveD. whole5 ^3 i4 n, @3 M( l# B
2.A. killsB. hurtsC. woundsD. injures |
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