Every
week an employee working in the hospitality industry dies because of passive
smoking.
New
research claims that passive smoking causes at least 49 deaths a year among
workers such as bartenders, waiters and club staff. Environmental smoke in the
workplace is blamed for a further 700 deaths each year.
The
study, called Environmental Tobacco Smoke and the Hospitality Industry, was
carried out by a professor from Imperial College, London.
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It
also calculated that at least 3,600 people aged under 65 die every year from
lung cancer, heart disease or stroke as a result of breathing in second-hand
cigarette smoke at home.
By
Roisin Woolnough
