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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." L7 B% d4 a7 J4 E' F1 O
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.
2 m, e, w, [7 W* v: r# M8 q+ X"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 Q* F+ |+ }5 F6 X5 UOther ____7____ have measured the levels of exposure to passive smoking but Jamrozik calculated how it would translate into avoidable deaths.
* Z' o* k. V4 O8 U; I: c' z' uHis 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.' k8 q w) {: }% ~8 ]
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.: f$ ]9 r" q" D( x2 Q* W' ~2 E
Professor 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.: ?/ ~8 P& X: `4 G# ]2 g
"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.
! Y2 l- Q3 ~2 X0 t7 ^3 E"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./ R+ v9 G& q, E2 S4 l8 V' P
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.
' n: t( [+ U! B/ E2 j- q( F1.A. passiveB. naturalC. extensiveD. whole
* c- S$ @6 O' s3 Z2.A. killsB. hurtsC. woundsD. injures |
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