"U.S. patients who use certain asthma inhalers made with ozone-depleting propellants should talk to their doctors now about alternatives ahead of a ban that starts in January, health officials said on Friday.Albuterol inhalers that use chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to propel the medicine into the lungs will no longer be sold in the United States after this year because CFCs damage the Earth's ozone layer."http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSN3035248520080530
"U.S. patients who use certain asthma inhalers made with ozone-depleting propellants should talk to their doctors now about alternatives ahead of a ban that starts in January, health officials said on Friday.
Albuterol inhalers that use chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to propel the medicine into the lungs will no longer be sold in the United States after this year because CFCs damage the Earth's ozone layer."
http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSN3035248520080530
I'm surprised to hear they used CFCs to start with. I can only guess it's because the CFC propellant does less damage to the drug / preserves the drug longer inside the asthma inhaler than would alternative propellants.
Eh, nobody's thought of an air pump?
>>6761It's for asthma. Some of these people might be at a stage where they simply can't operate an air pumping mechanism at a point in time when they really need their inhalers.And others are just lazy, overweight yanks. Mostly these.
>>6761It's for asthma. Some of these people might be at a stage where they simply can't operate an air pumping mechanism at a point in time when they really need their inhalers.
And others are just lazy, overweight yanks. Mostly these.
>>6772>>And others are just lazy, overweight yanksBetter to be that, than to live in a nanny state where even THINKING can label you a criminal.
>>6772
>>And others are just lazy, overweight yanks
Better to be that, than to live in a nanny state where even THINKING can label you a criminal.
>>7691 And where chav scum are allowed to harass real people while the police do nothing.
>>7694They need training so that the real menace of society can be arrested when they breach the Dangerous Pictures Act.
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