[Eric Blair 2084]

Well metmom, I have good news and bad news for you:

That's why we found this post so fascinating.

Good News: We thought that the whole world was just angry at stinky smelly smokers. Call it Schadenfreude. I'm not proud of myself but I can't help but see other citizens be discriminated against because of their odor. I'm right behind you. Nothing worse than BO and cologne.

Bad News: Nobody gives a crap whether people are annoyed by odors. The only reason they cared when it came to cigarette smoke was because they found that kicking smokers out of bars and restaurants was a good way to coerce people to quit and the sheeple went along with it.

Don't hold your breath waiting for anyone in Gubmint to help you out. There is no money to be made and no social engineering experiment to be accomplished going after big perfume.

Have a nice day. :-)

[ru4liberty]

Bad News: Nobody gives a crap whether people are annoyed by odors.

Let me do a bit of a re-write on the above: Nobody gives a crap whether people become sick from exposure to fragrances. (Just wanted to clear that up because we don't oppose the perfume because we're annoyed by it.)

That said, I agree. Almost nobody gives a crap that fragrances carry health threats for some people. If they did, they'd extend common courtesy to them as one human being to another. There would never be need for a lawsuit. But as you've seen on this thread, many people aren't willing to extend that courtesy.

[Twink]

Once they get done with the smokers and fat people (and maybe again with the drinkers) they may focus on the *chemically sensitive*

[metmom]

I’m no fan of big government and personally, I don’t care much if what I’m doing is ANNOYING people.

However, I do care if it’s harming them.

I guess I just don’t have it in me to be callous enough towards others to be a good libertarian.

Say, for the record, since libertarians think that individual rights trump all, if I feel like blowing away the person whose perfume is harming my health, that would OK right? I mean, why can’t I just go and do what I feel like and demand he get out of the way of my bullet?

My question still hasn’t been answered either. What if I come and pour some chemical agent in a room that sickens people that makes them end up requiring hospitalization or medical treatment? Would I not be charged with assault? How is someone else continuing to do something to me through perfume when they know, not the same?

[patton]

The casses are different - with ETS, no one ever established causation. With perfume, it has been firmly established.