A Lung Time Coming

Ozone-depleting asthma inhalers being phased out 1

Asthma inhalers containing ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons will be phased out by the end of 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday. The phaseout of CFCs is required under the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty that the United States actually deigned to sign on to. Alternatives to CFC inhalers use hydrofluoroalkanem as a propellant; HFA inhalers may taste different, feel different, require more regular cleaning, and cost about $20 more. Some 52 million inhalers are prescribed in the U.S. each year, and the FDA estimates that some 65 percent of inhaler users have already switched to HFA.

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  1. Wolverine Posted 6:20 am
    03 Jun 2008

    What A Psychotic Species!First, humans pollute their atmosphere, causing some of them to have asthma.  Then, they make inhalers that alleviate the asthma symptoms that destroy another part of the atmosphere.  So much wrong thinking and wrong attitudes go into this type of behavior that I don't know where to start, so I won't.

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