[justkillingtime]

Have at it freepers!

[Fiddlstix]

Condolences to the family.
But...
If she had such a major problem with asthma why, in the name of common sense, was she working there?

I smell something fishy......

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[TC Rider]

Some will say she should be canonized as the Saint of Second Hand Smoke.

I say give her a Darwin Award!

[syriacus]

Condolences to all who knew the young woman.

Patients Balk at New Asthma Inhalers: HFA inhalers are better for the environment but how about the patients?

[bannie]

An Aside:
My brother was a cop at 19. He went into bars before he could go into bars.

That said, if you can’t stand the heat...stay out of the bars.

[Joan Kerrey]

This smells

[mylife]

In other news.. a young man who is allergic to peanuts died at his job in the planters peanut factory.

[Madame Dufarge]

Wow, what a grant junkie this guy is. These are the grants he pulled in for the period 6/2 - 8/30/05 alone. Notice the nice fat one from the CDC for $680,242. No incentive there to come up with some "proof" to further the CDC's agenda:

Rosenman, Kenneth; Medicine; $187,500; Michigan Sensor Project; MI Consumer and Industry Svcs

Rosenman, Kenneth; Medicine; $298,557; Genetic Exposure Interaction in Beryllium Disease; NIH/PHS

Rosenman, Kenneth; Medicine; $5,400; Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE); Mich Farm Bureau

Rosenman, Kenneth; Medicine; $22,744; Ables; MI Labor Economic Growth

Rosenman, Kenneth; Medicine; $680,242; Enhanced Program in Occupational Injury and Illness Surveillance; Centers for Disease Control -PHS

Rosenman, Kenneth; Medicine; $12,837; Work-Related Asthma Education Project; MI Community Health

Rosenman, Kenneth; Medicine; $28,252; State-Wide Asthma Mortality Review; MI Community Health

[Eva]

What was she doing working in a bar if she was that sensitive to smoke?

[metmom]

Didn’t she know that smoke triggered asthma? How could she have stood it there before? I can’t believe this is the first time she had problems with it.

Smoke of any kind bothers me. I know there are going to be some jobs that I just can’t do. Oh, well.

[Dianna]

Although she had prescriptions for an assortment of drugs to prevent and treat asthma attacks, she was reported to only use them when she was having breathing difficulty.

She managed her disease badly by not taking her meds as prescribed AND got a job at a bar...Darwin award IMO.

[kenth]

Rosenman said the woman had asthma since age 2. Her asthma was poorly controlled. She had made four visits to her doctor in the year before her death for flare-ups, and had been treated in a hospital emergency department two to three times that year.

Although she had prescriptions for an assortment of drugs to prevent and treat asthma attacks, she was reported to only use them when she was having breathing difficulty.

On the evening of her death, she had no inhaler with her.

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Sorry for the long article quote, but that’s the reason she died; not smoke, but uncontrolled asthma which could have been triggered by just about anything.

But never let the nanny state gestapo pass up a chance to use someone’s death to further their cause. I’m just surprised the smoke nazis got to her story before the free gubmint healthcare people did.

My asthma is pretty well controlled. Yet, I never go anywhere, even a short trip to the store, without my acute attack inhaler close by.

[ml/nj]

Too bad she didn't consider becoming a fire fighter.

ML/NJ

[Eric Blair 2084]

This is nonsense.

[elkfersupper]

If the death certificate reads "second hand smoke" as cause of death, that will be a first.

We should all keep in mind that physicians used to prescribe smoking as a way to defeat an asthma attack (in my experience, it worked).

[hosepipe]

Bull sperm.. I don’t believe it..

[CSM]

“Rosenman said the woman had asthma since age 2. Her asthma was poorly controlled. She had made four visits to her doctor in the year before her death for flare-ups, and had been treated in a hospital emergency department two to three times that year.

Although she had prescriptions for an assortment of drugs to prevent and treat asthma attacks, she was reported to only use them when she was having breathing difficulty.

On the evening of her death, she had no inhaler with her.”

Sounds like we should pass laws forcing the use of perscribed medication to control known medical problems. I feel very sad for this teenagers parents, however she should have been smart enough to monitor her own health and mitigate the risks.

[Redcloak]

They should prosecute whoever it was who held a gun to the poor girl’s head and forced her to take that job.

And then they should impeach Bush and Cheney for good measure!

[Dionysius]

Anecdotal Evidence — the sine qua non of the liberal fascist!

[MEGoody]

This is sad, but I have to ask, why did she choose to work there? She KNEW she had asthma.

Of course, the point of this article is to show why it is a good thing that government regulate business even further.

[MEGoody]

This is sad, but I have to ask, why did she choose to work there? She KNEW she had asthma.

Of course, the point of this article is to show why it is a good thing that government regulate business even further.