| Canada ban on Perfumes
Posted: 3/1/2007 4:14:50 AM | I guess it was just a matter of time, after the smoking ban was put into effect. You might have to copy and paste the links to get them to work.
Ottawa, Canada banned smoking in all bars & restaurants on 8/1/2001.
On 6/1/2006 they have begun their war on perfume. It only seems just. There are plenty of websites on the carcinogens & detrimental health effects of perfumes & fragrances. Why not control every aspect of everyone's lives.
Right now they are in the Public Education part of the campaign.
Article:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/06/01/ot-scent20060601.html
From the article, the plan is to look at scent bans in 2010.
Currently they are in Phase I of the plan.
http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/hrssc/2006/06-01/ACS2005-CCV-EAC-0005.htm
Phase II is Mandatory programs in the city's corporate buildings. This will include community centers, city sports centers and public transportation. It even includes a cute snitch plan for individuals to inform drivers or transit officials if they feel that exposure to scented products pose a health risk to them. (Somebody's going to get kicked off the bus).
Phase III is a mandatory program in all city & public buildings.
Check out their poster: (PDF file)
http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/hrssc/2006/06-01/noscentpaths.pdf
Again. This is not a joke.
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| Canada ban on Perfumes
Posted: 3/1/2007 4:42:56 AM | I know is not a joke. Something different will be after 2020. Luckily, I'll be gone.
By 3005 it will prohibited to pee in the sea. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 4:43:27 AM | | That's not right. Although, some people tend to shower in fragrances which has made me sick a few times being around someone who does. A little goes a long way, but banning this is ridiculous. Why not concentrate on making our streets safer, putting our energy towards education and other social issues? Instead of concentrating on stupid programs such as this. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 4:48:46 AM | This is ridiculous. Yes, some people bath in their perfume but usually you can just ask them to tone it down.
Even shampoo frangrances can offend some people with sensitive smell.
I am not happy that my tax dollars are being considered for use on this nonsense.
There is a lady who bathes in her Eternity perfume at work, but I think someone spoke to her about how strong it is.
It's not a joke, but it sure feels like one. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 4:59:59 AM | So one city makes an action to "educate" people on the perils of scent in a single city in Canada and will "look" at the possibility of a ban in 3 years...
I wouldn't start to panic just yet. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 7:58:06 AM | | I think that this is a great idea, and long overdue. People should have the common sense and common courtesy to exercise moderation in their use of scents. Unfortunately, many don't. The bucket loads of perfume they soak themselves with are annoying and probably harmful. Society shouldn't have to suffer because some people want to cover the world in a noxious haze of toxic gasses. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 8:14:34 AM | I have to agree ^^^^ I have an extreme sensitivity to scents, to the point that even some flowers make me ill. I had to ask my own mom (who doesn't bathe in her perfume) to tone it down because being in the car with her in the mornings gave me a headache for the rest of the day.
If there were more people who used moderation (and IDIOT department stores didn't put the fragrance counter right at the entrance of their store) I would think this was a needless thing, but being as sensitive as I am I think it's at least worth looking at. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 8:34:38 AM | I know it seems to be an over reaction to regulate scents in our communities and environment as it is impossible to completely eliminate all scent. However, it is not unreasonable to request that some do not “Bath” in a scent causing everyone around to be in discomfort. The purpose of using a scent is to intrigue and enhance a person, not ostracize them.
I am actually in favour of scents being reduced. There are areas in our Country which already do try to implement “Scent Free” areas. The Dalhousie University in Halifax has had the program in place since 1995. There are many individuals that are so sensitive to scents that they can actually become physically ill.
The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission has indicated that it is prepared to treat scent-sensitivity as a disability. The result then is that organizations such as the University have a legal obligation to accommodate these individuals. In attempting to meet these legal obligations and to support scent-sensitive individuals, the University has in some cases revamped jobs.
Fragrance-free policies are beginning to take hold in work places across the United States and Canada. Here are just a few examples:
Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, asked its employees and students to refrain voluntarily from wearing scented products.
The entire Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia has a “scent-awareness” program that urges the use of unscented products only.
Alacrity Ventures, a Berkeley, California-based venture-capital firm, not only encourages its employees to go fragrance-free but also uses only unscented janitorial products.
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Posted: 3/1/2007 8:59:29 AM | Perfume is made of toxic materials that can injure your health. Many of the chemicals in perfume are the same chemicals in cigarette smoke, and yet there is no regulation of the fragrance industry. Many have gotten sick or have been disabled from wearing (or being exposed to) fragrances or using other scented products. Fragrances are now being used in almost every cleaning, laundry, and personal-care product on the market. We also inhale the chemical fumes which then go straight to our brains where they can do major harm.
{“Health Risks of Perfume,” www.ourlittleplace.com - April 2002}
Most of the fragrance chemicals consist of volatile organic compounds that are known to be respiratory irritants. Studies have shown that inhaling fragrances can also cause circulatory changes and electrical activity in the brain, triggering migraine headaches, the inability to concentrate, dizziness and fatigue. Products that are labeled fragrance free or unscented do not guarantee they do not contain fragrance chemicals, they imply that they have no perceptible odor. A product labeled “unscented” may contain a masking fragrance, and if the fragrance is added to a product to mask or cover up the odor of other ingredients, it is not required to be put on the label. Most fragrances have not been tested for safety.
{“Fragrance Sensitivity,” allergies.about.com - April 2002} | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 9:13:30 AM | Why dont they use all this money to ban people from throwing their cigarette butts out the car window. Seems just as silly but if you really think about it, how many forest fires are started that way? How much money does if cost to fight those fires? How much damage is done?
The government is just trying to waste the billions of dollars extra they have taken from taxpayers so that its not sitting there and us taxpayers begin asking why and wanting it back. Stop putting it in to banning perfume and put it to something usefull like education. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 9:16:41 AM | | I mean they should regulate the harmfull substances in perfumes just like they regulate work place safety. Or ban the perfumes from being in the products, not from using the products. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 9:30:13 AM | I've truly read everything now........how can this even be contemplated.....? Yikes....
What next is my question....hmmmm | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 9:30:24 AM | | perhaps an alternative would be to identify the toxic chemicals used by "some" manufacturers and then ban the ingredients. also it would be good to have perfume bottles "labeled". i have some deadly reactions to certain perfumes and not to others. however, this means changing the scents in bath soap, laundry products, etc. and i imagine it would be an easier path to id and eliminate the toxins. any thoughts? | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 10:42:47 AM | there is a law in the office world that you cannot wear perfume its part of the condition of the job you can be fired if you were told 3 times to tone it down  | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 10:58:28 AM | | I think they come up with this stuff just to keep us distracted from the real issues. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 11:08:06 AM | | I had rather get sick from smelling of over doing perfumes on a woman that get sick from smelling her body oder!!! | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 11:09:38 AM | | It is finally good to see another government screwing up besides our own USA, LOL... | |
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| Canada ban on Perfumes
Posted: 3/1/2007 11:19:49 AM | It is finally good to see another government screwing up besides our own USA, LOL.
A municipal gov't to boot!
Ottawa councillors voted Thursday to start a public education campaign to get people to voluntarily stop wearing scented products, but stopped short of calling for a scents ban.
They plan to review the effectiveness of the campaign in 2010 before looking at the committee's recommendations for a scents ban.
.....and thousands died.
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Posted: 3/1/2007 12:06:09 PM | | Thank you ,this is the most interesting topic I ever read in these forums.I myself suffered the smell of the perfumes or any products that has a scents that I tried to avoid some people at work who used a perfumes even afraid to be closed by them because I got sick.Once I smell the scents I started having a bad sore throught and a pounding headaches and suddenly changes my attitude into moody maybe because I do not feel good and I know that I am going to get sick again and those people do not have any idea that someone like me is silently suffering because they have no any clue that perfumes can make other people get sick.I am not anti- perfumes or anything but some people like me are very sensitive they should do a reasearch, the same thing when I smell the cigarettes maybe they have the same ingredients I do know . | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 12:41:52 PM |
Canada ban on Perfumes
Man that stinks.
Sorry, I'll get me coat | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 12:42:57 PM | Tropical woodlands (rain forest, seasonal, drought-deciduous, and savanna) contribute about half of all global natural VOC emissions. Croplands, shrublands and other woodlands contribute 10–20% apiece.
Flowers smell because of volatile organic compounds as do pine trees and herbs etc. So it's not all bad is it?
That being said,
I can't stand perfume so I'm not opposed to this.
However, as with anything else it's all a matter of degree. Just because cigarrette smoke and generic perfumes contain the same chemicals does not mean they have the same effect.
It could be the difference between trace quantities (ppm or ppb levels) and percentage levels.
Anything inhaled has a greater imact on our bodies than does something in contact with our skin due to the greater surface are of the lungs.
The amount of smoke entering the lungs is greater than the amount of VOCs from perfume. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 1:00:11 PM | | My office is already scent free - ""No scents makes good sense"" and it not just perfume they target..hair products, soap, anti persperant the whole drug is the slogan store ...Thats going a bit over board in my opinion. You start a new job there and your first paycheck goes to buying scent free stuff lol | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 2:04:47 PM | lol yeah our municipal and federal government is well screwed up
im for the ban on b.o i deal with it every day on the bus some dont know what the word shower is
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Posted: 3/1/2007 4:44:44 PM | It is a known fact that 33 % of the population suffer from terrible side effects due to allergies to scents. I am one of those. You wouldn't believe the incapacitating headaches some scents give me. Neither Aspirins, Tylenol nor Advil makes the headache go away.
Although, I am not comfortable with our government banning things such as: scents or smoking. The products are sold & manufactured after all. In my view, if they are to be banned they should be taken off the market all together. Of course, that will obviously not happen for capitalistic reasons... The almighty dollar wins out all the time.
But I would prefer that people don't bathe in scents which leaves behind them a trail similar to that of a skunk ... lingering in the air for a long while after it has spayed & passed by.
In today’s world we have the opportunity to shower everyday. It is my opinion that perfumes should be used for seduction purposes only. Seduction is an up close intimate type of contact... it should leave no trail except in the heart & mind of the people involved.
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