Bad breath!

[mats01_99]

Is it my imagination or is peoples breath getting worse?, I was just in a meeting and the 2 people to the side of me had awful smelly breath, I have noticed it more and recently; or is my sense of smell becoming more sensitive as I get older?!

[notfrom-oz]

i agree ,it's become a lot more noticeable , and i do think its because peoples breath is getting worse opposed to sensitive nostrils.
that why i just talk to people on here!!

[4getmenot]

Its all them coffee drinkers

[laurence2]

can't say that i,ve noticed a huge swing for the ''Smelly breath brigade'' in recent years, tho i do think that once you,ve noticed the odd one or two people with bad breath, it seems thereafter that your nose is on a ''MISSION'' to detect the bad breath people?

[MrBen5]

Hmmm, are you sure its not your bad breath and the people sitting besides you were merely blowing it back to you... :)

[drchasuble]

I think breath is the same as ever it was but I have a little theory on why it's more noticeable these days. Before in the olden days of yore for example a person would cough into their hand or put their hand over their mouth when yawning. People today are more "liberated" and dispense with such niceties and seem to breathe through their mouths a lot more.
I think this goes hand in hand with guys on the tube sitting with legs wide open and reading a broadsheet. There is no respect for a person's personal space anymore.