Obama just pushed asthmatic kids over a cliff.
 

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It's well known that asthmatics hate nature.

lol @ inhalers damaging the environment. Especially over asthma problems.

and you want this administration to handle your health care?

wow

politic discussions as usual......only half of the story. I expect more out of you brain.

“There are many other safe and effective medications to treat the symptoms of asthma,” says Badrul Chowdhury, M.D., Ph.D., director of FDA’s Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Rheumatology Products. But you need to find out if you really have asthma—not just pick another over-the-counter medicine, adds Chowdhury. “If you have breathing problems but have not been diagnosed by a health care professional, it’s important to see one. Not all breathing problems are asthma, so you need to get an accurate diagnosis and the proper medicine.”

"What other inhalers can I use for my asthma?
There are inhalers that have another medicine that can treat asthma, such as albuterol HFA inhalers. Hydrofluoroalkanes (HFAs) are different propellants (spray) than CFCs and HFAs don’t harm the environment. You will need a doctor’s prescription to buy these."

"Albuterol HFA inhalers are metered-dose inhalers that you use in the same way as you use the epinephrine CFC inhalers.
Albuterol HFA inhalers are safe and effective for these FDA approved uses: treatment or prevention of bronchospasm in patients with reversible obstructive airway disease, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)."

Really? We're scared that people are self-medicating with OTC asthma inhalers?

HFAs require a doctors visit ($) & prescription ($$) & cost more ($$$).

Hopefully Asthma patients are allowed to get a 12-month supply, because when you need an inhaler, you need one NOW.


Maybe the FDA should ban hairspray too, seems logical?

Seriously?

The FDA banned inhalers which use chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) propellants in 2008, recommending the use of hydrofluorocarbon (HFA) propellants instead. Source: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/.../ucm076979.htm


This was done in accordance with the Montreal Protocol, to which the US became a signatory in 1987. Specifically, the US' participation was endorsed by then-president Ronald Reagan (who was not a liberal):Source: http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/montreal/01.html


The New England Journal of Medicine (arguably among the most respected publications in medical science) states:Source: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra050380



R-134a costs more than R-12, but I think we all handled that transition without too much grief. And R-134a isn't even covered by Medicare / Medicaid.



EDIT: Budget Racer beat me to it.

They did ban hairspray containing CFCs. Years ago, in fact. Along with darn near everything else containing CFC propellants.

The problem really is that there is now no EPA approved over-the-counter inhaler due to some stupid an international agreement. This also assumes you believe a few squirt from an inhaler depleats the ozone.

So CFCs bad for the environment, yet inhaling that is ok?

Also, Scott, it seems that JasonC has access to your account ;)

and now they contain VOCs and carcinogens which everyone freaks out about.



And do you know how annoying it is to buy real pseudophedrine?!?!?!?!? I'm probably on a meth watch list.

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We're watching you as you typed that. Stop masturbating so hard and maybe you won't have shortness of breath :giggle:

I'm always being watched.

Yes. Before you swipe your credit / debit card, you have to first hand your drivers license to the clerk, and then tap a button on the screen and sign you name on a line saying that you promise not to operate a meth lab.(,.,.,.,.,.)

Additionally, the medications themselves have been moved by several feet and are now located on a shelf immediately behind the counter rather than immediately in front of it, thus increasing the amount of human interaction which I must be subjected to by several seconds.

In many stores, they have put stacks of printed cards on the "old" shelf which resemble the front of the box of medication which formerly occupied that space, so you can minimize the number of additional sounds which you are required to utter by picking up one of these cards and handing it to the clerk in lieu of using words and sentences to express thoughts. The context of your actions in this case is generally understood to mean "please give me the thing that looks like this card," and not, for instance "please tell me about your religious beliefs," or "My name is Pusha, and I enjoy having unprotected sex with farm animals," so the system works reasonably well.

I am quite allergic to dogs and cats, so I find that I must endure this cruel and horrifying abuse with some regularity.

But why do you so readily accept the bogusness? It's a minor annoyance, but very unnessecary.

Because if we can trick criminals into promising they won't commit a crime, then society wins. Because they PROMISED.




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Based on this principle, I'm also working on a crime-reduction plan in which I dare criminals to not commit crimes. And they won't, because I DOUBLE DOG DARED them.

And that's why gun control laws are fail.