Passive Smoking at Work Kills Three People a Day - New Research

Every year 1,200 people in the UK - three a day - die due to passive smoking at work, according to new research published 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 - starting on Wednesday, 9 April - will call on the Government to implement a legally binding Code of Practice for workplace smoking.

Such a Code was proposed over two years ago by the Health and Safety C... (10 more words)

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