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How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled B...
it presented “excessive perspiration” as an embarrassing medical ailment in need of a remedy.
I think the condition of "halitosis" was similarly invented.
Falling3
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I take it you've never worked closely with someone who had it.
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Amen. Someone at my workplace has it--you can tell if they spoke in a room up to twenty minutes after they leave just by the smell.
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I think the condition of "halitosis" was similarly invented.