Asthma sufferers who use inexpensive,
over-the-counter Primatene Mist inhalers
will no longer be able to obtain them beginning in 2012, thanks to a phase-out
of the product initiated by the Obama administration. In accordance with the
Montreal protocols adopted during the Bush administration, products that emit
chlorofluorocarbons , which include PM inhalers, are an alleged threat to the
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are thus being withdrawn from use.
The decision is a curious one,
though, as the Obama administration recently denied a new US Environmental
Protection Agency smog rule that was
allegedly designed to cut emissions and protect the ozone layer. Surely
millions of vehicles produce more ozone-destroying pollution than those tiny
inhalers do, right?
Nevertheless, the Obama
administration is moving forward with the inhaler ban, which will send
thousands of asthma patients using epinephrine inhalers to the pharmacist
counter to purchase more-expensive, prescription-only albuterol inhalers, which
can cost up to three times more and are not necessarily as effective.
We at NaturalNews do not
necessarily endorse either type of inhaler, since the chemicals inside them can
cause respiratory illness and other health problems in those that use them .
The simple fact of the matter is that a common medicine is being banned, not
because it is harmful to human health, but because it is supposedly harmful to
the environment.
The minute amount of CFCs
emitted by epinephrine inhalers is nothing compared to the massive amount of
other pollutants permitted to freely plague the environment -- toxic waste from
pharmaceutical plants, fluoride chemicals dumped in water, and the millions of
tons of aerosol chemicals sprayed in skies by sandaler
aircraft to allegedly "prevent global warming" are just a few
examples.