The clock is winding down on the transition time to switch from CFC-propelled albuterol inhalers to HFA-propelled albuterol inhalers. The United States has banned sale or distribution of these products in the US effective January 1, 2009. With less than a month left to transition, AAFA urges you to ...


by joining our campaign to lobby Congress and the Administration to AMEND Title VI of the Clean Air Act at www.saveCFCinhalers.org
Arthur Abramson
The National Campaign to Save CFC Asthma Inhalers
I am allergic to the new inhalers. They cause a sensation of cobwebs building in my lungs with one inhalation. Without the CFC, inhaler I will be condemned to a dotage and death like my father's at age 69 of asthma and emphysema. With the CFC inhaler, my breathing is involuntary. When I use the new inhalers however, breathing is a constant struggle and my lungs rattle. I am 61 years old.