Passive Smoking Is WorkplaceKiller
Pressure mounted on Britain on Monday t take action on ___1___ smoking1 with new research showing second-hand smoke _____2____ about one worker each week in the hospitality industry2.
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暴露 in the hospitality参加者负责费用的聚餐(或娱乐活动) _____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 deaths3.
His finding 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 the findings would apply to将应用于 ____10_____ countries in Europe because, to a greater or ____11___ extent范围, 限度, 程度levels of smoking in the community are similar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1. A) passive B) natural C) extensive D) whole
2. A) kills B) hurts C) wounds D) injures
3. A) dealing B) working C) smoking D) shopping
4. A) rate B) motion C) system D) disease
5. A) level B) industry C) location D) nature
6. A) close B) with C) for D) next
7. A) researchers B) patients C) members D) smokers
8. A) applied(应用 to) B) based C) called D) relied
9. A) learning B) turning C) dying D) suffering
10. A) no B) most C) few D) some
11. A) small B) larger C) lesser D) more
12. A) private B) secret C) open D) public
13. A) seriously B) strangely C) nervously D) personally
14. A) yet B) still C) also D) just
15. A) sports B) places C) moves D) actions