Big pharma's latest scam. "Exhaling depletes the Ozone layer."

[Cyrano]

Hundreds of thousands of people with breathing disorders use inhalers.

The most common one was called Albuteral. It was a small pocket-sized spray that could be used two or three times a day to help people with lung problems breath easier.

However, this product is no longer on the market as of January 1st of this year. Big Pharma declared that inhaling it helped, but exhaling after using it was a "threat to the ozone layer." (On edit: How about if people just inhaled and didn't exhale? Would that solve the problem?)

The majority of people who use inhalers are seniors, and the generic inhalers were covered by their insurance companies.

The replacement product has no generic equivalent and costs $30 a month.

Just to put this in context, one medium sized herd of cattle cutting farts for a day, does more harm to the ozone layer than a million seniors exhaling after breathing in Albuteral.

The health insurers of course went along with this as it was one more thing they didn't have to pay for.

Anyhow, here's my opinion of what this country needs. We have to ask the French to dig out the guillotine they haven't used for decades, and borrow it from them.