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Jump to full article: ASH London (uk), 2003-04-08
Intro: Every year 1,200 people in the UK (three a day) die due to passive smoking at work, according to A Killer on the Loose', [1] research published today (Tuesday) on the eve of a major conference on workplace smoking. The TUC, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) conference (Wednesday) will call on the Government to implement a legally binding Code of Practice for workplace smoking, proposed over two years ago by the Health and Safety Commission.
The research, carried out by expert on second hand smoke James Repace, reveals that in the UK around 900 office workers, 165 bar workers and 145 manufacturing workers die each year as a direct result of breathing in other people's tobacco smoke at work.
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