Adam Ruins Everything: How Listerine Created Bad Breath
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[QUOTE=laserpanda;49035769]"Listerine is a successful company with a good marketing department"
okay.[/QUOTE]
This is the attitude big mouth wash loves!
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;49040837]I think mouth is a bit different though. It's not supposed to be "really nice smelling," except in society it's expected from us to maintain some level of oral hygiene.
But aside from that, the mouth is very important part of our digestion that ultimately helps us to choose whether to spit something out, or swallow it.
And saliva serves as our natural mouth wash also, cleansing teeth notably. Saliva usually smells bad, but it's an efficient natural solvent, and is good for you.
The mouth is a very bad place to get an infection though, of course. It could cost your entire fucking jaw (so could a punch in the stone ages) and the ability to chew things, like an Airways gum.[/QUOTE]
Bad breath is a direct sign of terrible dental hygiene. Saliva is obviously not enough to work effectively against the very sweet and otherwise spicy food that most people consume. If someone was to only eat raw meat and vegetables then his teeth won't have much of an issue for most his life but that's hardly someone anyone wants to get through.
Also gum rot touches everyone including animals. Dogs have bad breath to start with but if their mouth smells like death then they're having issues that require a vet's attention.
What Listerine created was the common use of scare tactics as an advertising ploy.
[QUOTE=Incoming.;49043309]Can you cite a source here? Something peer reviewed, preferably?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/suppl_1/i250.full[/url]
There is also the sociology of odor, but that is pay walled.
How anyone could believe that we have an innate response to odors is beyond me. It is like none of you have ever encountered young children.
sure they talk about how this, but not that some unnamed company in the 50s made mouthwash, toothpaste, and other hygiene products using Nazi confiscated hydrogen peroxide, people were brushing their teeth with hydrogen peroxide made using slave labor, for a while anyway
[QUOTE=GunFox;49051849][url]http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/suppl_1/i250.full[/url]
There is also the sociology of odor, but that is pay walled.
How anyone could believe that we have an innate response to odors is beyond me. It is like none of you have ever encountered young children.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I don't believe that people respond negatively to all smells generally perceived as bad, but I did want to see some type of basis to say that.
The vast majority of people do not stick around dead things and the smell of rotting animals. Since you don't get used to things you're not exposed to regularly, after it becomes strong enough, someones going to say "this smell is choking me."
But my main question is: What makes Listerine the "bad guy"? Is it not more enjoyable to be around people with breath that [I]doesn't [/I]smell like vodka infused with Indian food? Doesn't need to smell "bad", but in a matter of preference.
Adam had a pretty good laugh with the TSA, most of his complaints were valid. The Listerine criticism, on the other hand, feels weak in comparison.
[I]wowie zowie, people long ago were really gullible when things like the internet existed, what a shocker.[/I]
i mean the subject is interesting, but it's not like it's a huge breakthrough like they make it out to be and I don't understand how this deserves it's own section in a tv show, especially when it doesn't really affect anyone today because most of us do like to smell good things and less of bad things. they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel for this.
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