Bureaucrats have banned everything from foie gras to trans fats, and now they're putting their nose in another place it doesn't belong:
These proposed fragrance bans come at a time when perfume makers are marketing more and more scents towards teens.
Gotta say, as much as we loathe the smell of high school guys masking body odor with Axe or teen girls bathing in dizzying dollar-store perfumes, an outright ban seems like an infringement on people's rights.
We don't mean to put our noses up to the potential health risks of fragrances (yeah, we've heard of those phthalates in fragrances that have been shown to lower testosterone levels in males), but we think more research is needed to prove whether perfumes are a nuisance or indeed a real threat to public health.
What do you think: Do bans on scents make sense to you?
From The Wall Street Journal: "School districts in Rhode Island, Minnesota and Massachusetts have recently launched public-service campaigns that target fragrances as potential allergens.
The proponents of curbing or banning fragrances in schools—mostly school officials and legislators in different states—argue that excessive use of scents can trigger asthma attacks and cause headaches. Some workplaces and schools have scent bans in Canada, where strong odors have long been viewed as an air-quality issue."
These proposed fragrance bans come at a time when perfume makers are marketing more and more scents towards teens.
Gotta say, as much as we loathe the smell of high school guys masking body odor with Axe or teen girls bathing in dizzying dollar-store perfumes, an outright ban seems like an infringement on people's rights.
We don't mean to put our noses up to the potential health risks of fragrances (yeah, we've heard of those phthalates in fragrances that have been shown to lower testosterone levels in males), but we think more research is needed to prove whether perfumes are a nuisance or indeed a real threat to public health.
What do you think: Do bans on scents make sense to you?
too much control is a bad thing.
That reminds us, we heard that Atlanta wants to ban underwear-exposing pants! Sure, it's a huge fashion faux-pas but pul-eez--playing fashion police is not the role of government.
kids, fight for your right to smell good!
Since when did the right to breathe become dominated by "right to smell"?
You talk about freedom: I want to be free to LIVE my life, to teach, to be able to go home and work and play and not be trapped in bed with a migraine, to not be tied to an inhaler that makes me shaky and irritable and prone to panic attacks the next day!
One of my friends has allergy-induced asthma. She has had to leave school in an ambulance several times this past year due to classmates wearing perfumes and colognes. Schools make policies banning peanuts and things like that for allergy reasons. Why are perfumes any different?
People with allergies could literally fall over from anaphalactic shock and those with sensitivies can be incapacitated by migraines. Freakin KUDOS.
I hope perfume is banned everywhere.