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.
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.
练习:
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 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
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