“The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?”

Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin - “The question about those aromatic...” 1

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