Foul? N.H. Republican Proposes Fragrance Ban for State Workers
- Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:43am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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A New Hampshire Republican is tired of smelly state workers. Not the ones that smell bad, bur rather the ones that wear fragrances that others might be sensitive to.
“There’s one in five persons who are sensitive to the chemicals that are in fragrances,” Rep. Michele Peckham, R-North Hampton, told WMUR-TV.
Her proposed legislation would prevent state workers from wearing fragrances at work. He calls it a health matter that must be addressed.
Rep. Seth Cohn, R-Canterbury, disagrees with his colleague. “I think everyone knows when someone is wearing too much perfume, and we don’t have to tell anybody it. The nose knows.”
So does Rep. Pete Silva, R-Nashua.
“I know there are some people who are against having people wearing perfume, but some should wear more of it and we’d all be a lot better off,” he said.
This isn’t the first time a fragrance ban has come up. Last year, Framingham State University mulled a similar ban on perfume and cologne (and fragrances in general) on campus, and Nevada consider something similar for air fresheners and candles.
Speaker of the House Bill O’Brien has vowed to consider the measure “and see if we ought to legislate” the issue.
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Comments (71)
Freedomluver
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:57pmFirst they came for the smokers…
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 1:37pm…Then they came for the flatulators….
Report Post »SR1911man
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 4:39pmThen they came for the non-shower.. ers…
Report Post »rc30
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 10:50pmCan someone say progessive. I hate this crap. Don‘t do this and don’t say this. Enough just stop you can’t be serious. I want Rick to win. But you see stuff like this and Ron starts to look better and better.
Report Post »mbvrooman
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:45pmOops… I guess she is a shemale. I just thought she was a male hippie with a French first name.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:42pmBad cologne is just as bad as bad body oder….. But we dont need another law, are these politicians just trying to justify their pay and benefits packages or what ???
Report Post »mbvrooman
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:40pmMichele… Or Meeeeee-shell is a male. Not a man, but it does have a penis. So she is actually male gendered.
Report Post »Alan
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:32pmGood lord, and she’s a republican? Poor thing, actually has to smell other people’s perfume or cologne. Maybe she ought to just stay in her own house, and never come out. We’d all be appreciative. This Pecker-head, I mean Peckham-head, ladies and gentlemen, is a busybody progressive pretending to be a republican.
Freedomluver
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 1:16pmYea….just like Mitch Daniels who just signed a smoking ban. And to think that some some folks actually think he’s a conservative….
Report Post »Seneca264
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:26pmYou do notice that it is the Republicans who are screwing around with your freedoms?
Report Post »mbvrooman
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:34pmYes, that is why I detest Republicans nearly as much as Demo-socialists. Actually, they might be worse because they trick un-informed conservatives to vote for them. This is why are country is screwed. It does not matter who you vote for in this 2 party system. Either way… You are voting for a Socialist. Some are just a little worse than others.
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 1:06pmYep, and Santorum is one of them.
“One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right. You know, the left has gone so far left and the right in some respects has gone so far right that they touch each other. They come around in the circle. This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”
Report Post »Rick Santorum
libtardian-refugee
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 3:02pmThe party does not matter, ending freedom the “R” way or the“D” way is the goal.
Report Post »But to address the issue, Great perfume, but did you have to marinade yourself in it.
AmazingGrace8
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 9:46amAgree. However, there are more of “us-the population” than the politicians. Someone(who became a USA citizen after leaving a dictator-run country) says she knows what Democrats/Liberals stand for and “see them coming” but she “doesn’t see the Republicans coming”. These past 100 yrs are “the 95% fault of the “us-the population”. The politicians just do the bidding of the masses AND THEY LOVE THE POWER! If the Constitution is not followed, America is choosing 2 ways to die a slow-death: arsenic or cancer!
Report Post »mbvrooman
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:23pmIt is probably because he is French, (or at least his first name is…) and he wants to embrace the smell of Paris. In the U.S. We call that fragrance… B.O.
Report Post »Bro. Chuck
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:17pmOh, what happened to the good old days….
an appropriately timed cough….
crossing of ones eyes to express the pain of exposure…
pinching of the proboscus and bulging of the cheeks ala Diizy Gillespie to mimic revulsion….
exaggerated gagging and retching while pantomiming looking for a window to fling open….
yup sonny….
back in the “good ‘ol days” you could just let them know straight out……
“boy howdy, ma’am…. what is that stuff?
I’ll make sure to get some to keep on hand…..
just in case my dog ever corners a skunk and i need to give him a dunk….
the embarrassment alone was usually enough to get’em to think twice before doing it again….
eh, but now its all about being PC….
its all about us being too squeemish to confront…
and “how dare we” say or do this or that….
no – throw it to the “gubmint” to handle….
we are truly a pathetic society any more……
There’s hope yet, folks…..
Be Bless’d
Bro. Chuck
Report Post »Nevermind
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:16pmJust another small government GOP rep, lol.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:14pmI will admit I wear a lot of fragrance. it‘s versace if people dont like it don’t stand so close to me. I wear so much perfume because I cannot stand the smell of unshowered dirty people which I frequently encounter here in western washington. My perfume creates a bubble of goodness around me and a buffer from the stinky folks.
Report Post »Just in time
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:42pmHorse, you do understand that makes you part of the problem. And you embrace it with your vanity.
Report Post »skimmer57
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 1:43pmI am from west WA. and am offended by your comments. I think I stood by you once. You call that versace I call it summers eve!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:08pmThe problem is perfume today is not made the way it was in the past. Today the ingredients used are causing allergic reactions-like headaches.in the past that was very rare-now its common.Hyper,greedy corrupt capitalism at work once again.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 3:00pmRose you are so funny. You always like to jab at capitalism, but without it you would not be able to work. You do work don’t you or are you one of those free loaders we Republicans always talk about living off our backs?
Bless your little heart. Translated: That is southern for what a dumb_______.
Report Post »ZebulonBrady
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 6:50pmGo to EWG com and read about all the carcinogens you dumping on your body. Your pretty smells are made from chemicals you’d never let your kid breath in, but yet you do. In a few years, you’ll be making a smell of your own and it will be that of rotting flesh as you sit alone in your casket.
Report Post »Bro. Chuck
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:04pmmaybe she should just keep some benadryl close by……
I wonder if second hand fragrance exposure can cause rashes?????????
Waaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands, yes.
Report Post »OutOfTheAether
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:33pmLet me bring up something most of you may not know about. It’s called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Talk to some one who has it. Their reaction to some perfumes is akin to having a stroke, complete with brain activity impairment, slackness of facial muscles, the whole works. I’ve witnessed it, and it ain’t fun, for the individual and for those who care for him/her. Now consider what that individual has to do in order to function normally is everyday activities – avoiding crowds, meetings, stores, etc. – basically becoming a hermit in your own home. Knew of one couple where the wife was so afflicted. When the husband came home from work, he had to change clothes and take a shower to remove the perfumes he would pick up at the office, otherwise she was affected.
Report Post »Should this be something that should be regulated by governmentally mandate? Personally, I’d be reluctant to says so, but then again, ask what the individual mentioned above would have to feel about it.
OutOfTheAether
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:57pmPerhaps, a better solution would simply require perfume manufactures to provide full disclosure of what goes into their perfumes, to allow for more informed choices, much as we do for foods. Then you’d see how some feel about wearing something that has whale-vomit as a prime ingredient. I’ts added to make the fragrance last longer
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 1:03pm@OutOfTheAether
Ask someone with an allergy to peanuts if Dairy Queen should be allowed to sell peanut buster parfaits. The smell alone is enought to kill some of those with this allergy.
Report Post »Bro. Chuck
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 1:39pm@ OutofTheAether…
(nice moniker, btw….)
sorry… no, it didn’t cross my mind.
I could understand though, yes…
especially in this day and age where it seems that anything and everything is an environmental hazard anymore….
the high school girls come to mind as far as “mysterious exposure”….
but there again, its almost like the batman movie….
expose the folks to a little of this & a lil of that….
nuke it with the cell phone radiation, and viola!
I’m not trying to be callous, but there IS an absurdity in what we have created and what we do to ourselves…
I’ve sat on a flight next to one of those that goes the “axe vs. B.O.” route…
I was going down that path in my lil rant…
I never meant to offend those with legitimate affliction and sensitivity….
accept my humble apologies folks…..
Be Bless’d,
Bro. Chuck
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 3:08pmFreedomluver, Your Dairy Queen example is a bad example. Those with a peanut allergy already knows to avoid Dairy Queen. They know there is peanuts. So you are comparing apples to oranges.
A person who has a chance encounter with someone has a reaction at that point in time and does not have that luxury to know ahead of time. I can be walking past 10-30 feet away from someone smoking a cigarette in the open with the wind blowing and if the smoke drifts to my nose, I am suddenly affected. Perfume, disinfectant spray, office desk cleaner can send me into a frenzy where I lose my breath and I have to start breathing out of my mouth and leave the area until it dissipates.
Report Post »ZebulonBrady
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 6:46pmI know people with Chemical sensitivities and they do react badly with some of the fragrances. Some stop breathing! Then look at the chemicals in some of these fragrances. You wouldn’t let your child open a can of Xylene and start breathing it, but it‘s okay when it’s in a perfume. Hey it smells good and when you put it on you get a little high yourself…
Report Post »Wake up people, you really don’t need all the gag till you drop perfumes. Those who use perfumes and male fragrance products should try bathing instead. You might find that others will find a clean you more attractive.
Maybe if Obama required everyone to wear some, then it would be banned by Congress.
SamIamTwo
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:03pmYeah, that’s the priority one issue to work, eh? It is called waste of taxpayers time and money…bookem danno.
Report Post »GetRight
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:02pmOh yes. With all that is going on in this country let’s get on this pressing matter of perfume! How ridiculous! I definitely can’t stand the stench of strong perfume especially now that I am newly pregnant! Smells are ten times worse. Thought I was going to puke at church the other day. Seems like everyone there bathed in it before coming but I would never tell someone they can’t wear it. This guy needs to get to the real issues!
Report Post »Dumpster Baby
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:02pmHell, why not. If a state government can forcible insert something into a woman’s ****** surely they can tell her whether or not she can wear perfume.
Report Post »mbvrooman
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:28pmWhat state government forcibly inserts anything into a woman? The federal government wants to… but they still can’t do that.
Report Post »Dumpster Baby
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:34pmCommonwealth of Virginia just passed a bill mandating ******* ultrasounds for women requesting abortions.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:01pmSounds like a “RINO” to me…………
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:01pmWhat’s really bad is the “Axe” generation who doesn’t bath, but thinks that pouring out the girlie man body spray gets rid of the b.o.
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:00pmHow is this an example of small government. Get out of our lives. If you think someone is wearing too much perfume, have the courage to say something. We do not need more law RINO.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:57amThese morons have way to much time on their hands…. Its crap like this that makes me think of both parties as one the same, or two sides of the same idiotic coin… Shheese.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:56amThis would be a Republicrat who is so out of touch with the people’s concerns that he thinks this is a reasonable legislative matter.
Report Post »Lumbar Spine
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:55amYep…it‘s all Obama’s fault. Destroying our Constitutional freedom and liberty with this…we’re doomed!
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:54amAlright, alright already, stop trying to melt people‘s mountains when it’s going to happen anyways. The people who are spiritually meant to inherit the earth will be the ones who inherit it anyways regardless of race or creed.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:53am.
Nothing worse that some fat person trying to cover-up Body Odor with perfume……
I’m not talking about you Ann……..
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:59amOh my God, Spank, that just happened to my wife and I tuesday! We went out for Vday lunch and some 400lb hippo in the booth behind us must bathed in a vat of “Ode to Trailer Trash.”
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:52amHey , that smell is baracks new budget. Focus people!!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:51amNo, no, no. Stop legislating EVERYTHING. I agree that some women AND men wear so much “smellum good” they would gag a maggot but enough already with laws against everything.
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:50amHow about a B.O. ban for all of us?
Report Post »dtitus1304
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 1:15pmI see what you did there. Very clever.
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