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> Even ignoring health effects, it has a smell that can be sickening for non-smokers, and you can't control where the smoke goes. That also applies to differen
by zeveb 10y ago
> Even ignoring health effects, it has a smell that can be sickening for non-smokers, and you can't control where the smoke goes.
That also applies to different cultures' bathing and perfume practises, but I think we all recognise that banning those practises would be unjust.
> At this point some smokers like to bring up "b-b-but what if someone wears a ton of perfume??" but in practice basically nobody regularly takes a break to shoot perfume several times in a row into the air around them.
You've clearly never shared an enclosed space with someone whose bathing practises — while unobjectionable from a health & sanitation viewpoint — are different from your own.
- TulliusCicero 10y agoAh, here come the bad analogies from the smoking apologists. It's quite rare that I come across anyone who's even close to as stinky as a smoker who's currently smoking. Besides, as a practical matter, restricting bad body odor is not nearly as problematic as restricting smoking.