Reply #149: I Do Not Have MCS

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But I do develop medical conditions when I am around perfume or cologne.

"There is nothing inherently dangerous about perfume. There is something inherently dangerous about tobacco."

No, I suppose there is nothing "inherently dangerous" about perfume. As long as it sits in a bottle on someone's dressing table, the only real danger I can think of is that it might get tipped over by a curious feline who would then drink it and die.

But then the same could be said about tobacco. As long as it remains some dried leaves rolled into 20 cylinders and packed into a packages that is in someone's purse of shirt pocket, I can think of little possible danger.

I suppose one could argue that there is a potential danger to anyone who takes a cigarette and lights it and draws the smoke through his or her own lungs.

But I know of no study that demonstrates any danger to anyone other than the person who actually smokes the cigarette. You have said elsewhere on this thread that people have died as a result of breathing the smoke of others in bars. I await your documentation of this serious claim.

Perfume, unlike cigarette smoke, most likely does not affect the person who wears it, but does affect people who do not wear it. The person who wears cologne does not get sick. People like me do.

So I guess one could say that, to the extent that there is any "inherent danger" in either cigarette smoke or in perfume, there is inherent danger to the person who actually smokes the cigarette, but the inherent danger in perfume exists not to the person who uses it, but to the person who is around the person who uses it.