Is it appropriate

aylajane wrote: »

bikemom06 wrote: »

We have someone at my work that comes in and is a smoker and tries to cover it up with perfume. It is the worst smell ever. She smells like she rolled around in an ashtray and dumped the perfume bottle on her. It give me a headache every time she walks through my office.

ChristineE63 wrote: »

I'll take your perfumed lady if you take my smoker dude.

My mother had a double lung transplant last year after being on O2 for over a year. I am sooooooooooo tired of taking her through the hospital entrance doors both before and after the transplant and having to walk through the "wall of smoke" from the smokers sitting outside the doors (despite some sign saying the policy is no smoking within a certain number of feet from the doors). Come on people!? Oxygen tanks not enough of a "push" to move away from the doors? Hopefully her new lungs wont be hurt by it. Have some common sense/decency. I wont even start on walmart...

This! Sheesh, I went to a birth class yesterday and during the break I wanted to walk out into the patio area since it was too hot inside the room. Then one of the husbands lights up a cig right beside his pregnant wife and pollutes the air we are all breathing. Right outside a door. And we have a LAW saying you cannot smoke within 25 ft of an entrance/exit (these people need to start receiving fines). I feel worst for her baby. I can (and did) walk away. She could choose to as well. But that baby gets no choice and might get developmental problems because of it. Didn't help that I already thought the guy should get punched for being SUPER annoying during the class and wasting everyone's time.

bikemom06 wrote: »

We have someone at my work that comes in and is a smoker and tries to cover it up with perfume. It is the worst smell ever. She smells like she rolled around in an ashtray and dumped the perfume bottle on her. It give me a headache every time she walks through my office.

ChristineE63 wrote: »

I'll take your perfumed lady if you take my smoker dude.

Anyone who thinks they can hide the fact that they smoke with perfume or that horrible cheap body spray is seriously deluded. I despise the smell of cigarette smoke ( I'm an ex-smoker) and putting on perfume to cover the stench is just silly. I'd rather smell honest sweat on someone working out than perfume, dryer sheet smell, or "gasp" stale cigarette smoke!

Perfumes trigger headaches for me. I agree that talking to management is best. A general informative sign won't single anyone out or hurt feelings. We had a guy in my show choir who smelled like serious BO and the director just reminded everyone at the beginning of rehearsal to take 5 minutes to 'freshen up' and put more deoderant on. Sometimes general announcements work!