Does the Fourteenth Amendment protect smelly people?

The Hawaiian council had considered making it illegal to have “odors that unreasonably disturb others or interfere with their use of the transit system”.

Had it passed into law, anyone convicted of being smelly could have been fined up to $500 and given a six-month jail term.

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But lawyers from the city and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it was vaguely worded, would result in subjective judgments being made and may even have been unconstitutional.

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