Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds

Inhalers produce carbon emissions equal to 530,000 cars on road annually, study finds

Inhalers that deliver quick relief to patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be taking a toll on the planet, producing as much climate-warming pollution as more than half a million cars each year.Researchers reported in a new JAMA study that inhalers have generated more than 2 million metric tons of carbon emissions each year over the last decade, equivalent to the emissions of about 530,000 gas-powered cars on…

Is your inhaler causing climate pollution?

Related video: Air quality categories explained (NEXSTAR) – That small whoosh from an inhaler has a substantial environmental toll that could be putting some people with chronic conditions at risk, according to a new study. Published Monday in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the University of California Los Angeles Health study looked at emissions from three kinds of inhalers prescribed for asthma or chronic…

Inhalers produce as much carbon emissions as over 500,000 cars each year, study finds

"These emissions drive global warming, exacerbating the very respiratory conditions inhalers are meant to relieve," researchers wrote.

Pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds

"They are these tiny little products, and it's hard to imagine that they can be such contributors, but it's an eminently fixable problem," a study co-author said.

STOP BREATHING, ASTHMATICS: CNN Rails Against ‘Climate Pollution from Inhalers’

Tough noogies, asthmatics! CNN has officially pinned your breathing tool as the latest climate change threat to the environment.  Jen Christensen of the CNN Health & Climate Unit railed against respiratory-challenged individuals’s survival tool in an October 6 story headlined: “Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds.” Apparently being full of hot air is no longer just an idiom for the lefty me…

Asthma, COPD Inhalers Contributing More Greenhouse Gases

(MedPage Today) -- Greenhouse gas emissions from metered-dose inhalers used to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have increased over the past decade, resting heavily on use of just three products, one study found. Another...