2007-07-30 12:30:40 · 9 answers · asked by b 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
To help eliminate the scent of their bowel movements. Now some drugs users do this too, that is why you should check your bathroom after visitation of a stranger.
2007-07-30 12:41:40 · answer #1 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lighting one sometimes helps with the bathroom odors.
2007-07-30 12:33:03 · answer #2 · answered by Shibi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It absorbs the odor when there's a big stink in the bathroom.
2007-07-30 12:35:59 · answer #3 · answered by Candle Queen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 reasons.
1) burning a match burns the methane released from a fresh poop.
2) the sulfur smell masks what's not burned.
I prefer an air freshener but you can't always carry that with you.
2007-07-30 12:36:26 · answer #4 · answered by Dan Bueno 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lighting a match, blowing it out, releases sulphur fumes.
Kills any odors.
2007-07-30 12:33:38 · answer #5 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The matches are used to get rid of one particular odor...which really doesn't help, it stinks worse.
2007-07-30 12:49:42 · answer #6 · answered by Oppna to tal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To mask the odor of a fresh steamer.
2007-07-30 12:33:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To burn away the gases they produce, so as to reduce the odor for the next person.
2007-07-30 12:33:31 · answer #8 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In case the lights go out?
2007-07-30 12:33:08 · answer #9 · answered by browneyedgirl 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋