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- inactive, on 10/17/2007, -2/+37Try eliminating your filth rather than masking the odor.
- Error601, on 10/17/2007, -1/+32I don't know why people pollute their air with air fresheners. A friend put up one of those plug-in things and both cats suddenly started vomiting every other day. That's got to have some impact on the humans in the house too.
- chaosmachine, on 10/17/2007, -1/+27hrm.. so spraying random chemicals into your air supply is bad for you? the only shocking thing here is that it took this long for someone to make the connection.
- chase001, on 10/17/2007, -0/+17I know i used to run an Oust Fan in my bathroom and both myself and my pet rats had constant respiratory problems and sinus infections the whole time.It took me months to figure out the fan was causing it.
- FearAndLoathing, on 10/16/2007, -1/+10I always hated those things, and now I have more of an argument.
- TheCosmicFool, on 10/17/2007, -0/+7/Sells stocks in Oust
- TheCosmicFool, on 10/16/2007, -0/+6Of course its not the ONLY reason for asthma.. I mean asthma was around before these air fresheners right?
- quakerorts, on 10/16/2007, -1/+6We are living in a 'chemical soup.' Everything, from our plastics, to our clothing, to that 'new car smell', to our deodorants, soaps, detergents, shampoos, pesticides and herbicides are putting chemicals into our environment. We breathe them in, we drink them in, we absorb them through our skin. There's almost no escaping them. Then we wonder why there's so much cancer, asthma and other diseases. Sigh. We've really trashed this place!
http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/28/everyday_toxins - Zeldafreak104, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5I have Asthma, and I'm ***** tired of seeing people use inhalers on TV shows and other things by the really nerdy/geeky/kid no one likes.
But considering I'm on here... maybe it does fit. - mojoel, on 10/17/2007, -5/+10Maybe that's why I have asthma! Or maybe it's just because my parents both smoked like chimneys around me. And my grandparents smoked like chimneys around me. And my aunts and uncles.
- Superfreak77, on 10/16/2007, -0/+4surprised how many people have no clue. just read the ingredients. acetone? sure I will breathe that in a fine mist...
NOT! - WaterDragon, on 10/16/2007, -1/+4you NEVER have to use those air fresheners. You can just light a stick of incense, and let it burn for one minute.
Or get a dry-flower thing, or even a little bowl of dried flower buds and spices..... - akatherder, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3Brrrr it's cold out. Would somebody turn up the heat.
- dcormier, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3Maybe you should take a look at the ingredients in common air fresheners. Then go and research what those ingredients are.
- therealrico, on 10/17/2007, -1/+4that explains why I got asthma two years ago, at the age of 23, friggin air fresheners!
- Dan2552, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3If you can smell it, you're inhaling it...
- Benevolentsoul, on 10/16/2007, -2/+5I find opening a window works better than using an "air freshener"
- tHePeOPle, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3*****
- WaterDragon, on 10/17/2007, -2/+5Yeah right...BUY more THINGS!
Hello? Did anyone ever hear of a little thing called a WINDOW? OPEN IT! - KloroFormd, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3Look at the package for the Oust sprays. "Asthma and Allergy Sufferers: Consult your physician before use"
- scorchedearth, on 10/17/2007, -1/+3Get a negative ion generator for your room instead.
- Monk22, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2dude! i had no idea spraying horrible chemicals in my house would cause problems for my health. ludicrous!
- mojoel, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Well said!
- dannomatic, on 10/16/2007, -2/+4You're all weak. I spray air freshener into my mouth 3-4 times a day, bath in toxic chemicals and wash my clothes in pure peroxide and I'm strong a horse.
Left wing liberals are weak! - xenuxenuts, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2some people have bad allergies and won't open the window in allergy season.
- Dan2552, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2My asthma is triggered by allergies, allergies from things outside...
- inactive, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2My back hurts all the time, can I blame that on Lysol?
- executorzz, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2The FDA alone is humongous. If you want to tightly regulate all industries that would create an enormous bureaucracy not a small central government.
- Seidoger, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2This isn't *****. Although there's a bit of a scare about it, I remember a documentary from last year also stating some air fresheners could contain carcinogens.
It's insane what Procter&Gamble would do to make money. In the TV ads for those products, the protagonist always empties the whole bottle at once (just like Axe, but that's another story) - mrurc, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1No, it took this long for someone to *prove* a connection. People have known this for years.
- RyanOC, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I just got one of those oust fans yesterday for my office, hmm....
- charz0r, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Old news. I've avoided air fresheners and cleaning sprays all my life because of my asthma. I only use them when I really really have to...
- Haohmaru, on 10/18/2007, -2/+3But, the GERMS will get MEEE!!!!!!
- jstahnke10, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1http://duggmirror.com/health/Asthma_Blamed_on_Clea ...
- WaterDragon, on 10/16/2007, -2/+3Yeah, consult your physician, so he can get in on the windfall profits, just like the chemical corporations that poison you, every day, for enormous profit.
How much would you pay some greedy-ass, lying doctor, who will charge you money just to enter his office and talk with him?
The idolatry toward all these bastards must end now! - inactive, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I guess you don't want this life-saving inhaler then, right?
- xero69, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Thank goodness I don't clean very often, no asthma for me!
- Haohmaru, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Yep, and its been around for centuries at least. But nowhere near the epidemic levels we have now, which only took a few decades to get there.
- FastMac, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Well the smart money is on petrochemical pollution being the principle cause of most illnesses of the 20th century, such as Asthma, Allergies, some cancers and human sterility. And above all that, it is creating the global warming increase.
- drmobutu, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Those auto air-freshener things are the worst...there is something wrong with people who use them and think it improves how their car smells...
- Hillsfar, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Negative ion generators typically generate them electronically, meaning they also generate ozone. Ozone is a cancer-causing agent.
I suggest getting a Rain Mate instead. It generates with flung water similar to how a waterfall or breaking waves on a beach will generate negative ions. - knuckles, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1All I know is that I grew up in a household with TONS of cleaning products and I have never had an asthma attack. Both my sisters are also asthma free. My wife however, grew up as the child of Italian immigrants who ONLY use vinegar as their sole cleaning product. 2 of the 5 kids (including my wife) have asthma. To this day my mother-in-law still only uses off-the-shelf white vinegar to clean bathrooms, floors etc.
I'm not calling BS on the research, but I kinda gotta give it a glaring grimace. - Malakin, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Here are additional articles on the results of this research, since the server appears to be down:
Forbes: http://tinyurl.com/2ld6rc
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7041182.stm
CBC: http://tinyurl.com/2lewhr
Here's the abstract for the actual study:
http://tinyurl.com/2f4meo - strixus, on 10/18/2007, -1/+1And to think people thought I was faking it all those years when I'd start gasping for air and turning blue when they'd spray that crap around me. GET A CLUE PEOPLE.
- WaterDragon, on 10/16/2007, -2/+2it's not just air fresheners...it's every toxic chemical the industries add to soaps, every cleaning product, all cosmetics, nearly everything that is manufactured.
- gtothreg, on 10/16/2007, -0/+0I've been saying this for years. ***** don't smell as bad as chemicals!
- thewfirestarter, on 10/16/2007, -0/+0Acetone evaporates quickly, it wouldn't be a mist, it'd be vapor.
- Haohmaru, on 10/16/2007, -2/+2Perhaps, but I feel an in-depth, peer-reviewed, double-blind study would prove inconclusive.
- gtothreg, on 10/16/2007, -1/+0HAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHA you dumb *****
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