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Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns
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Posted on 09/23/2011 12:34:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns 3:00 PM, Sep 23, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts

Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration is would rather make people with Asthma cough up money than let them make a surely inconsequential contribution to depleting the ozone layer:

Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec. 31 to other types that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, an aerosol substance once found in a variety of spray products.

The action is part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other nations to stop using substances that deplete the ozone layer, a region in the atmosphere that helps block harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.

But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from $30 to $60.

The Atlantic's Megan McArdle, an asthma sufferer, noted a while back that when consumers are forced to deal with environmentally friendly products they're are almost always worse:


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To: tallyhoe
It don’t matter which administration started this. It is big government run a muck! This is the only over the counter drug for asthma. ...

IMHO it's important because when attempting to undo this, remember that big government run amok is not confined to those with a 'D' after their names.

... This is like the EPA is going to try and regulate dust balls!

Don't give them any ideas! ROFL ;)
141 posted on 09/24/2011 1:00:35 PM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: NFHale

Your point is well taken, but buying into the socialist/communist/Marxist/fascist manifesto in the first place requires an ignoramus IMO.

Ther’s no doubt these folks are doing what they are doing by design, but they are deeply flawed and delusional to the core.


142 posted on 09/24/2011 1:23:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obyema 2012 - he has addition deficit disorder... (not my line, but a great one to repeat))
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To: algernonpj

Absolute insanity. The mass of the earths atmosphere is 5000 TRILLION metric tons! And we are talking about GAS here!! It’s not 5000 trillion tons of iron, or lead, or wood but GAS.

To think, even say out loud that freakin inhalers of all things could even *touch* that amount is just absolute bat shiet lunacy. It’s the methane from cows argument all over again. Cows farting will damage the atmosphere they said.

Oh wait they didn’t say that, they always say “environment” Cows farting will damage the environment, because if they said “atmosphere” people would tend to look up statistics and percentages on that, such as CO2 only making up 0.04% of the atmosphere which you can literally call ZERO POINT ZERO!!! FREAKIN ZERO POINT ZERO!! THE SAME WITH METHANE AND EVERY OTHER GAS THESE IDIOTS ARE TRYING T BAN! THEY ARE TRYING TO DESTROY ENTIRE ECONOMIES AND PEOPLES LIVES OVER SOMETHING THAT HAS A FREAKIN’ PERCENTAGE VALUE OF ZERO!

It’s like putting a drop of ink into the Pacific and then declaring it polluted and all the fish will now die. BULLLLLLL DINKY!

Not to mention that they never talk about the fact that water vapor is the main culprit of global warming, not CO2 which is how the greenhouse effect was created on Venus, by WATER VAPOR, but Ass Gore can’t make money banning water so easily can he?


143 posted on 09/24/2011 2:26:19 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Mark Halperin - Learned the hard way what happens when you speak the truth on PMSNBC.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“...but buying into the socialist/communist/Marxist/fascist manifesto in the first place requires an ignoramus...”

Well said, D-1. I guess I didn’t think of it that way.


144 posted on 09/24/2011 2:32:48 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

You addressed it properly. I find myself addressing it several different ways too, depending on the discussion.


145 posted on 09/24/2011 3:14:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obyema 2012 - he has addition deficit disorder... (not my line, but a great one to repeat))
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To: algernonpj

This is like the EPA is going to try and regulate dust balls!

They are already trying to do this!!! It is actually Dust!


146 posted on 09/24/2011 3:24:32 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: Grunthor

Wow, Obama is killing asthma sufferers, many of whom are children, old people and poor blacks. But I’m sure that the improvement to the environment will more than make up for those murders.


147 posted on 09/24/2011 3:38:57 PM PDT by decisis
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To: DoughtyOne

I think the real problem is the kids who have grown up over the last decade or so, who have had this slop drilled into their heads, and don’t know any better. Reaching them is the key. They’re just ignorant only in the sense of not knowing any better because the alternative - the truth - has not been presented to them.

The commies have been working our kids over for a long time - mainstreaming the homo/queer stuff, socialist garbage class warfare stuff, hate your country crap - it’s all they’ve heard 24/7365 because that’s what runs a lot of the schools.

Taking THAT area of education back is HUGE priority.


148 posted on 09/24/2011 3:41:11 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

I agree. I just became aware of another insidious program that has our seventh to twelfth grade kids in it’s sights. It’s in our high schools across this nation right now.

It’s insidious in that it links admission to college with credits accepted at colleges based on classes taken in high school. This naturally appeals to kids.

It also introduces a logic process that causes kids to dismiss adults who know better based on Leftist presentations the kids have been exposed to.

It’s the International Baccalariot program, something intended to get the kids to think globally instead of holding loyalty to their homeland.

I’m still studying this issue, but one sample of world history had The USSR and the US being described in equal terms, if either was to be seen worse, it would be the US for demagoguery.


149 posted on 09/24/2011 5:57:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obyema 2012 - he has addition deficit disorder... (not my line, but a great one to repeat))
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To: Red Badger

But it’s ok, Democrates are not hyocrites andthe government is not lunatic cuz Clinton said he did not inhale (sarc off)


150 posted on 09/24/2011 7:13:57 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

It’s what “scientific” governance yields. If the agent believes it is science, there is no stopping the murders disguised as policy.

After all, indeterministic chaos thinking is their domain, and they believe a butterfly bat here can kill people in a hurricane in the Phillipines.


151 posted on 09/24/2011 7:20:19 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: JudgemAll

Hey. Asthmatics.

Get over it.

Or get your breath.

Right?

/rant

Buy now! Get your expired inhalers courtesy of 0bama Deathcare!

Well, the flea you save may live another day!


My dear God, I loathe these fools.


152 posted on 09/24/2011 7:30:10 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Sub-Driver

All asthma inhalers or just some kinds?


153 posted on 09/24/2011 8:41:36 PM PDT by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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To: tallyhoe
This is the only over the counter drug for asthma.

And it's a terrible drug with many problems. I would support making albuterol inhalers OTC - albuterol is a better and safer drug for asthmatics. It was just a matter of time before they took Primatene off the market for medical reasons, should have been done years ago.

154 posted on 09/24/2011 10:18:45 PM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: algernonpj

The EPA must be scrapped for the inhalers and their role in the destruction of American industries. As to inhalers, I’ve been steadily buying them. The puny and more expensiveRx varieties just don’t work as well..


155 posted on 09/24/2011 10:26:21 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: sheik yerbouty
The most common cause of asthma deathsis often underdosing on meds.

Which is why asthmatics should be on the right meds that are most likely to help them. A controller for those with frequent attacks (singulair, inhaled steroids, etc.) and albuterol or similar med for a rescue inhaler. Primatene is terrible as a rescue inhaler, since it doesn't last long, and some patients get a very dangerous rebound effect. It also is more dangerous for those with heart conditions, etc. It just isn't a good drug.

156 posted on 09/24/2011 10:28:58 PM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: SoCal SoCon
All asthma inhalers or just some kinds?

Just the over the counter epinephrine inhalers, like Primatene. I consider those very dangerous, and have seen patients almost die using them. The same patients who were helped with albuterol. A model named Krissy Taylor died shortly after using Primatene mist. If she had gone to a doctor and gotten albuterol or a similar medication, she'd likely be alive today.

157 posted on 09/24/2011 10:35:52 PM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: trailboss800

Obaba maybe hoping asthma sufferers will die and thus help the environment (alive people breathing the lung-heated air causes global warming).

Farting to be banned next.


158 posted on 09/24/2011 11:03:08 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (Obama, the most corrupt and incompetent President since Carter.)
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To: sometime lurker

They are taking it off the shelf because it might damage the ozone,not that it is dangerous!!!


159 posted on 09/24/2011 11:11:08 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: combat_boots

They always start the war in the guise of policy. What they moralize about is what they intend to violate. These are not laws, they are plain and simple coordinated assaults.

Plenty of cops and courts playing the innocent brave protector of things so as to get a pimp nose in things and litteraly start sh!t in order to genocide and seize assets - all political lawyers powers that be.


160 posted on 09/25/2011 12:25:05 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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