Posted on 09/26/2011 5:43:23 PM PDT by Nachum
Hundreds of thousands of asthma sufferers who use an over-the-counter inhaler will be compelled to seek a more costly prescription device by the end of the year, when the federal government plans to ban them over environmental concerns.
The Food and Drug Administration last week began a media push to get the word out about the looming phase-out. After Dec. 31, the epinephrine asthma inhaler known as Primatene Mist will no longer be available.
The product is currently the only FDA-approved over-the-counter inhaler and is being taken off the shelves because it uses something called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as a propellant -- the substance is considered harmful to the ozone layer.
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The government is trying to damage the health of the citizens. Object and fight back.
Perfectly idiotic.
Obama Wants To Kill Children. Let’s get this meme started and in the public’s mind. There is no other way to look at this outrageous ban.
Abrogate the GD treaty.
Let me guess...Zero’s two Paki buddies from College own a company that just happens to sell...THIS SHIT!
wow these enviros are almost as sick as the ones in Rainbow Six
Lamh Foistenach Abu!

Banning OTC inhalers is clearly in the Constitution. Dincha’ know that?
Left wing anarchists are willing to kill people
to save the trees.Oh CFCs are too heavy to affect the ozone hole.
or maybe the ozone hole is caused by Mt Erebus in Antarctica
V I Lenin has quite a few Useful Idiots here in America
Condemning allot of children and adults to a horrible death and I guess we can now call it a death panel.
This is all part of the ObamaIDon’tCare Health Plan. Take away effective medical devices that are less costly and force the sufferer to buy more expensive devices. That will cost the patient more in a co-pay (wealth redistribution), force the insurance companies to raise their rates in order to cover the increase in costs, which in turn, will force the patient out of the private insurance system into Obama’s marxist (We’ll take care of you, if you behave) healthcare plan. It will also destroy most private health insurance companies, always a goal of the marxists.
(Obama’s healthcare plan was originally proposed by one of Obama’s Communist Party USA, now marxist Democratic Socialists of America, buddies, Dr. Quentin Young -the Chicago Connection).
Now you know the truth!
My son uses these because they work for him and don’t cost much. Obama would ban them because the tiny amount of CFCs they emit (after going into the sufferer’s body) MIGHT be damaging to the ozone. I have never figured out how a heavy molecule like the CFCs got all the way up to the ozone layer to damage it. Maybe it is Bush’s fault.
The chlorofloride “harmful” to environment bit is BS.
The chlorofloride “harmful” to environment bit is BS.
I hope we survive as a free people, However with our A$$hole political class it it starting to look very grim.
Oh I think it is bigger than that.
Asthma is a huge and growing chronic disease in America.
With Obama care looming on the near horizon Asthma will be a huge drain on the health system.
Consider the savings that can be realized if thousands more asthma sufferers die every year than currently do.
Step two: the weak die sooner.
Outcome: fewer useless bodies breathing out polluting earth harming carbon dioxide. AND national health care savings to spend on genetically superior citizens.
All HAIL GLORIOUS LEADER OBAMA'S WAR AGAINST THE WEAK!
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