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Study counts cost of passive smoking in UK
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Strong argument for banning smoking at work has emerged from calculations suggesting that passive smoking might kill two or more employed people every working day in the UK and one worker or more in the hospitality industry every week. This is the first estimate of the extent of harm to hospitality workers from passive smoking.
In all, 617 deaths were attributable to passive smoking at work in 2003—up to a fifth of all deaths from this form of smoking among people aged 20–64 years—54 of which were in long term workers in the hospitality industry, half in pubs, bars, and nightclubs. Passive smoking at home accounted for 2700 deaths in the general population aged 20–64 and 8000 in the population aged 
65, it was also estimated. Uniformly smoke free environments and a drop in smoking to prevalences in Australia would eventually abolish deaths from passive smoking at work and cause
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