• PsychedSy
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    1 year ago

    Would you be comfortable banning perfumes, cologne, scented beauty products and air fresheners. I’m allergic to all of those things.

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      1 year ago

      If they are producing problematic exposure to a large number of people, for the benefit of only a few, yes I would.

      It gets a lot more difficult however to figure out where to draw the line. In terms of noise, smoking is like someone letting off flashbangs. It’s obviously antisocial and problematic, particularly in a close environment. However , how should we handle loud music? Obviously playing music loud enough to vibrate windows at 3am is a problem, but below that is a murky zone where it’s difficult to agree on what’s problematic or not.

      The equivalent to this, in smoking terms is vaping etc. It still produces something with a negative effect, but with a far lower problem potential. While I would personally prefer not to be exposed to vaping smells either, the balance is a lot less obvious. I accept that it would do more harm (to our personal freedoms etc) than good adding vapes to a ban.

      There should be some rules on smell production, but it’s the sort of thing that is difficult to write into regulations. It’s currently impossible to write a quantitative test into law. All would be subjective, and so prone to problems.

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      1 year ago

      Fuck yes. I hate walking into a room to be slapped with someone’s 36 spray morning routine. Thanks, I love having a headache all day.

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      1 year ago

      Yes actually, those also ruin the air quality. I’m by no means allergic to them but oh man do i power walk away from those smelly areas in the mall

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      1 year ago

      An allergy reaction just isn’t the same as cell damage done by the incomplete charred remains from cigarette smoke.

      One of them is a water gun and the other is a uranium cell up your arse

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        1 year ago

        Sitting behind someone in a theatre that’s drenched in perfume will fuck me up more than a cigarette will.

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          1 year ago

          Oh man “maybe some contain some things that might cause cancer maybe possibly in laboratory testing on mice, and even only if you absolutely fucking drown yourself in it” against “smoking is always known to and will absolutely cause cancer, including to people around you.” Yeah definitely the same thing.