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body odor stories: 6 news summaries

Honolulu Mulls Body-Odor Crackdown

City delays vote barring smelly people from riding public transit

Sep 3, 09 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Honolulu's city council has delayed voting on a measure to bar stinky people from public transit, reports the Advertiser. The ordinance would crack down on people with “odors that unreasonably disturb others or interfere with their use of the transit system.” Part of the reason for the delay... More »

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smell • Hawaii • Honolulu • public transportation • body odor • public transit • ordinance

Library Rules: No Loud Yells, No Bad Smells

Homeless advocates get into lather over hygiene policies

Apr 13, 09 9:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even if you haven’t been to a public library in a while you probably know the major rules: no shouting, no running, no food or drink near the books. But a rash of complaints from patrons have driven some Chicago-area libraries to institute a new prohibition: no offensive body... More »

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Chicago • homeless • smell • body odor • library • rule

Men Smell Like Cheese, Women Like Onion

Find an animal that smells like tomato
and voila—pizza!

Jan 29, 09 11:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Working out at the gym may stimulate your appetite—or maybe it's the enticing scent of the person next to you. Sweaty men smell of cheese, and sweaty women smell like onion or grapefruit, New Scientist reports. Body chemistry accounts for the difference, say Swiss researchers who based their conclusions... More »

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gender • study • Switzerland • cheese • smell • sweat • body odor • onions

 Casino Ejects Man Over B.O.

Smelly man wants an apology

Jul 31, 08 4:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - A gambler deemed too smelly to play is demanding an apology from New Jersey’s Borgata casino, Fox Philadelphia reports. Michael Wax, 54, had spent 17 hours gambling in the casino when an official approached him and said he had to leave because other patrons were complaining of his body... More »

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hygiene • gambling • casino • smell • body odor

 5 Actors 
 Who Rock 
 'Stink Chic' 

Poor personal hygiene, grooming, and dress habits don't stop paychecks coming

Mar 15, 08 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Clean-cut is so five years ago. Today, it’s all about the “stink chic” of rumpled clothes and unwashed bods, MSNBC reports. Its top five actors who look like they smell bad:
  1. Colin Farrell: The butt always dangling from his mouth is just icing on his greasy-hair-scraggly-beard-creased-clothes cake.
... More »

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Hollywood • Johnny Depp • list • celebrity • Kate Hudson • body odor • Colin Farrell • Matthew McConaughey • Orlando Bloom • Jared Leto • emo

Stench is in Nose of Beholder

Body odor perceived differently based on genetics, study shows

Sep 16, 07 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Good news for men with a nasty smell wafting under their arms: Scientists can prove why it's not so bad to everyone. A report published in Nature says that male sweat can invoke scents from urine to vanilla, thanks to tiny differences in a single receptor gene. How it reacts... More »

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Duke University • science • smell • sweat • scent • odor • body odor

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