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Actually they say bless you only when you don't sneeze upon them. If the case is contrary then you just listen what they say this time. Bye the way just kidding i think people say bless you because your head gets down when you sneeze and it is similar to the act of bowing so people say bless you in return.
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According to a radio show I heard, the Pope decreed you should say "Bless you" because the plague was going around, and it might be the last thing you heard.
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Basically it's similar to that..it's a blessing people applied to each other before the days of modern medicine when a simple sneeze could indicate death by disease or illness. It's a common courtesy to most modern people these days but was the difference of life and death back in 'the day".
Along time ago some people thought your heart stopped when you sneezed. So to keep you from dying they blessed you in hopes that your heart would start again. OLD WIVES TALE
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Because people use to think when you sneezed it was bad, so people thought they might die, so they said "bless you" so they had little chance of dying, but now we know that it's normal, it caught on and it's now considered "polite"
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