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Great, great! Thanks for being the pioneer, Josefa. I hope she wins. It's not just marijuana. Perfumes and other chemicals have increased dramatically over the
by _et33 4y ago
Great, great! Thanks for being the pioneer, Josefa.
I hope she wins. It's not just marijuana. Perfumes and other chemicals have increased dramatically over the last 10 - 15 years. It has driven some people to suicide: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-chemical-sensitivities-chose-medically-assisted-death-after-failed-bid-to-get-better-housing-1.5860579 https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-chemical-sensitivit...
And in the case of marijuana this is easy to solve by the person smoking, eating or growing the pot. Keep your windows closed, do everything inside, and use an odor and chemical eliminating air purifier. They cost anywhere from a few dollars for the ones you directly exhale cigarette smoke into, to $100 or so for console purifiers, to $400 to a couple thousand for the full home purifiers which use pounds of activated carbon, zeolite, and various other minerals to eliminate multiple chemicals and odors. Plus money on an ongoing basis to change out the filters, though some of the filters allow cheaper exchange when done by the user.
- CobaltFire 4y agoI completely agree. If the wind is wrong we have to close up our home due to the amount of marijuana smoke that comes in from our neighbors who seem to always be smoking. It’s a public nuisance, and I’m not biased against the substance in particular; I find BBQ smoke or cigarette smoke equally irritating.
- _et33 4y agoThe new "longer lasting" more intense scent laundry detergents are also a problem.
- spoiler 4y agoI guess I'm one of those people who likes the smell of my laundry (lavander generally). Is the smell dangerous somehow, or do you find them overwhelming? I know some people can have incredibly sensitive noses (even make careers of it) but I never realised they could be "smelling too much" so it overwhelms them
- _et33 4y agoThanks for caring enough to be open. Depending on the intensity these perfumes can cause anything from allergic-type reactions to migraines. At the very least they can be annoying to people with sensitive noses. I'm just annoyed by these scents, though very rarely they can trigger or exacerbate a headache if I'm on the verge of a headache. But others are far more sensitive, or far more on edge (such as chronic migraine sufferers who have to take active measures to avoid triggering a migraine). Some laundry detergents aren't nearly as bad as others. I don't know if yours is. One VERY IMPORTANT thing to note is that constant exposure to particular scents (or scents in general) will desensitize your own nose to them. Others don't have to have a particularly sensitive nose to be aggravated by a particular perfume, they just have to not be constantly exposed to it. Some tips if you're trying to be considerate: 1) Use only as much detergent as you need to. 2) Avoid scented dryer sheets (or avoid dryer sheets in general). 3) Avoid products that advertise "longer lasting scent". 4) Avoid any products advertised along the lines of "odor blast!".
- spoiler 4y agoThank for writing such a thoughtful reply! Now that you mentioned perfumes, when I enter a perfume shop I get a headache too. I've just not been in one for ages and forgot about the headaches! I think my laundry doesn't smell too strong (I generally put one pod in), normally without fabric softener, just a water softener (eg Calgon tablets) and just hang dry them afterwards. So, hopefully it's not too strong As for perfumes, I generally don't even own one, unless it was a present from someone. Aside: it's fascinating smells can have such a strong impact on people
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- silisili 4y agoYep, same. I was always mostly against legalization not because I think it's some evil drug, but because the smell is absolutely stomach turning to me. In a perfect world, it would be legal, people would be polite, etc. But our society is decidedly impolite. I have to avoid a lot of public parks in my city because they smell like a skunk orgy now. Still, I'd rather it just be nuisance fines and such than sending people to prison for years.
- _et33 4y agoEscalating fines along with literature on how to remediate. Though for incorrigibles some jail time would be nice. Some people think they are exempt from the law (blowing smoke outside of windows in a complex, when they know the distancing laws).
- armchairhacker 4y agoI fully support the legalization of weed, but also heavy fines and penalties for people who cause a weed smell in public when they are told not to. It’s not hard to detect whose and where the smell is coming from, and moreover, it’s not hard to get all of the benefits and “high” of weed without creating the smell (e.g. edibles). We let people drink and we let people drive, but no drinking and driving. Similarly people can use drugs like weed all they want because it’s their choice but when they make a bad smell and such it becomes other people’s problem. Get high but get high responsibly
- genocidicbunny 4y ago> also heavy fines and penalties for people who cause a weed smell in public when they are told not to Oooh! Can we do the same for other offensive smells too?
- skavi 4y agoliterally anything burning gas comes into question at that point
- cratermoon 4y agoMy neighbor grills outdoors pretty often. I'm a vegetarian, and I don't really appreciate smelling the roasting flesh of dead animals. Perhaps this woman is onto something.
- _et33 4y agoRight on. They can use an indoor grill. And vent it out through the piping on their roof. A previous neighbors grill was located under their porch awning. We shared a wall and their porch awning vented directly into our microwave and range's rooftop vent. Whenever they grilled it flooded our unit. Dangerous pollution regardless of the smell. If we turned on the vent to prevent the intake it created negative pressure in our home and pulled their glade plugin scents through the wall.
- theGnuMe 4y agoturn the vent on and open a window on the opposite side, that will neutralize the negative pressure.
- _et33 4y agoOur unit was too small. And with the shared wall smells and smoke would pump out the attic vent on the opposite side of the unit where the other window was. This was especially bad when they had parties at their place and the smoke from cigarettes and vapes literally surrounded our entire unit. The previous tenants at the neighboring place had considerately placed their grill in the lawn area. And never had parties.
- tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y agoAnd this is how you know this woman should lose. You're complaining about the smell of grilling. The other poster is complaining because they're vegan and they don't like the smell of cooking meat? At some point people are just going to complain because they don't want to be a decent neighbor and just deal with it. The neighbor is firing up the grill because they enjoy grilling.
- 2devnull 4y agoMy neighbor’s dog literally makes me sick. I don’t sleep many nights due to allergies. I agree, nobody should have to suffer health consequences due to neighbors dishygenic lifestyle choices.
- ss108 4y agoMove. It's not a lifestyle choice, and you don't have to live there.
- 2devnull 4y agoYou assume I’ve not actually thought of that? Rent control and life circumstances don't allow me to move. And yes, dogs are a luxury and definitely a life choice. I have no dog because I cannot afford to one. I love dogs as much as anyone. If I owned a home I would have one. But not in my bedroom.