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．