Re: RE : Re: Allergic US employee sues to ban perfume at work

July 7, 2007

What are you getting at here? That even if it hurts people, that we need to

let it stay?

I'd imagine that suit is primarily directed at workplaces that tend to

employ many women 'of a certain age' who often slather on tons of fragrence

laden skin products to ths dismay of those who must labor near them.

I have been on (crowded) busses where somebody gets on who is wearing that

stuff and within two or three minutes, half a dozen people loudly protest to

the driver and get off. It is just intolerable in the heat and already

fairly sweaty and smelly city environment to add that on top of it. People

used to put up with it but they don't anymore. Its like smoking in that

respect. They just don't think that others have the right to impinge on

others intimate personal space that way. Plus, many people now have issues

with smells from mold illness.

My sense of smell is not working so well now but those fragrances are among

the things that still make me ill even in my smell-deprived state. But

before that I spent years being oversensitive to smells, to the point where

those smells immediately made me feel sick. Perhaps that is part of the

reason my nose doesn't work now.. it was overloaded with toxins?

Look at that fake popcorn smell. It turned out to destroy people's lungs.

I have nothing against flavorings or whatever, as long as they are safe and

dont bother people.. But if/when they do, they need to go.

On 7/7/07, ginloi <ginloi@...> wrote:

>

> I doubt the perfume/cosmetic industry is going to take this lying down.

> Nor the makers of deodorants, dry cleaners, whose processing produces off

> gassing of a sort from clothing. That is just the tip of the iceberg.

> Personal care use products industry may fight even more vehemently than the

> cigarette industry. People have appeared to become fragrance sensitive

> because of IAQ or lack thereof. It may look like the " chicken or the egg "

> theory, but how will the Allergists and Immunologists deal with the

> potential litigation involving lost profits and slander of product?

>

> LiveSimply <quackadillian@... <quackadillian%40gmail.com>> a écrit :

> I think its a similar issue to smoking in the workplace.

>

> If it hurts people, it needs to go.

>

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