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Inhalers produce as much carbon emissions as over 500,000 cars each year, study finds
CBS News ^ | October 7, 2025 | By Sara Moniuszko

Posted on 10/08/2025 4:44:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Inhalers that provide fast-acting treatment for people with certain respiratory conditions are contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, which can worsen both climate change and the conditions themselves, according to new research.

In the study, published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found inhalers approved for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, generated an estimated 24.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in the United States from 2014 to 2024. This is equivalent to the emissions of about 530,000 gas-powered cars each year, according to the study.

"Scaled across tens of millions of inhalers dispensed annually, these emissions drive global warming, exacerbating the very respiratory conditions inhalers are meant to relieve," authors of a supplemental editorial note wrote of the findings.

Twenty-eight million Americans have asthma and 34 million have chronic lung disease, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. These cases are expected to grow as climate change makes air pollution worse, increasing the risk and severity of symptoms.

Researchers found metered-dose inhalers — the boot-shaped treatment modality many picture — were the most harmful to the environment, accounting for 98% of emissions over the decadelong period.

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KEYWORDS: asthma; climatechange; climatechangehoax; copd; fakenews; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; inhalers; jama; jamaliesagain; propaganda; saramoniuszko; seebs; socialism

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is just more re-cycled green bs. I remember about 20 years ago when the Obozo regime actually banned otc inhalers for just this reason, to “save the environment”.


21 posted on 10/08/2025 6:42:53 AM PDT by gunsmithkat (There is no such thing as Too Many Guns)
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To: gunsmithkat

Upon reflection it was closer to 15 years.


22 posted on 10/08/2025 6:45:19 AM PDT by gunsmithkat (There is no such thing as Too Many Guns)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
No, not possible. The content of the inhalers would have to have a great deal more volume than the gasoline consumed. I find it really hard to believe that many inhalers are used.
23 posted on 10/08/2025 6:49:28 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cough. Had to use my inhaler twice on this wow.


24 posted on 10/08/2025 6:51:07 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: GingisK

They’re trying to use something called “carbon dioxide equivalent emissions” for the inhalers, meaning, I suppose, that they assume the contents of the inhalers are somehow much more effective at global warming than mere CO2 for a given weight. Just the usual misleading weasel-word crap you can expect from the climate scammers.


25 posted on 10/08/2025 7:18:55 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The CO2 in an inhaler is not produced by the inhaler. It is removed from the atmosphere, put in the inhaler and then released back into the atmosphere.

The only CO2 that is produced is from the patient who is allowed to continue breathing after the asthmatic episode.

What a stupid article.


26 posted on 10/08/2025 7:47:11 AM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: Magnum44

Spot on must be another slow news day.


27 posted on 10/08/2025 8:25:45 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh for God’s sake! They do not. I use a steroid inhaler for asthma every day. Its a powder that you suck up into your lungs no aerosol. The albuterol rescue inhaler is a mist but it goes straight into your lungs not the air. 🙄


28 posted on 10/08/2025 9:14:28 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LOL, there is approximately 8 billion people on the planet now, and if you take their number and divide it by that figure it comes up to approx. 6.78 lbs of CO2 per person living per year.

We should be more worried about the amount of trash that many inhalers are creating and the natural resources used than CO2...


29 posted on 10/08/2025 9:56:40 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The bubbles in beer are pure CO2. How long before the climate cult wants to ban beer?


30 posted on 10/08/2025 10:47:05 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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