EDITORIAL HAZARDOUS BEHAVIOR.THE country will be paying close attention to the city of Calabasas in upcoming months, watching how it enforces the toughest anti-smoking law in the nation. On Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant , a ban took effect on all smoking in public, as defined by anywhere indoor or out where people can see you. No one doubts that smoking is a health hazard health hazard Occupational safety Any agent or activity posing a potential hazard to health. Cf Physical hazard. . In California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). in particular, government has taken as much action as is appropriate to curb smoking habits. The Calabasas ban, however, crosses the line of appropriate action into the land of unreasonable coercion coercion, in law, the unlawful act of compelling a person to do, or to abstain from doing, something by depriving him of the exercise of his free will, particularly by use or threat of physical or moral force. . And that's even more hazardous to our society's health. |
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