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On the recordOctober 24, 2011
I would submit that the volume of CFC that is released into the atmosphere from the contingent of asthma patients that uses an occasional rescue inhaler that they buy at 2:00 in the morning is vanishingly small and not responsible for the hole in the ozone layer.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess argues that asthma inhalers' CFC emissions are negligible compared to ozone layer concerns.

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