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Quote: Originally Posted by Martha It wouldn't be as the immediate cause might be a heart attack or cancer. Exactly. Or stroke or bladder cancer or esophageal cancer or throat cancer or emphsema ... It's a dose response thing. Inhale the equivalent of a third of a pack per day as a second-hand smoke inhaler living with a pack a day smoker, and you might not be as bad off as the smoker, but you're worse off than a pure...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gotadimple W2R, There will always be pharmacies - they get the wholesale cost of the drug plus a dispensing fee (that's why Walmart and others offer generic prescriptions for a $4 co-pay, regardless of what your healthplan offers). A solution to the fiscal problem, is to move to the generic version, if available, or -- go to mail order where you get a 3 month supply for the cost of two co-pays. Doesn't...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gotadimple W2R, There will always be pharmacies - they get the wholesale cost of the drug plus a dispensing fee (that's why Walmart and others offer generic prescriptions for a $4 co-pay, regardless of what your healthplan offers). A solution to the fiscal problem, is to move to the generic version, if available, or -- go to mail order where you get a 3 month supply for the cost of two co-pays. Doesn't...

Quote: Originally Posted by Frugality_of_Apathy T. There has never been a death certificate with second hand smoke as the cause of death. It wouldn't be as the immediate cause might be a heart attack or cancer.

While visiting my parents this Christmas, my dad showed me a cool device he got to help him walk on icy walkways- Yaktrax Walkers - Unisex at REI.com He LOVES them, they're fairly cheap, and they're easy to put on your shoes. If you have a lot of snow and ice where you live, you might pick up a pair and save yourself from a nasty fall.

Medicare Advantage plans are possibilities for some right now. However, they cost Medicare significantly more, in the many billions, and there is a move in Congress to eliminate these extra costs. The plans started as a Republican program. Who knows what will happen to folks who went that way if it stopped.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rich_in_Tampa Ah, but only some 10-20% of patients seeing a PCP for a new problem end up with a referral to a specialist. And the initial care rendered by the PCP will be much less aggressive than that of a specialist. Consultants must, somewhat necessarily, do definitive, "buck stops here" evaluations much of the time. Come to your internist with a headache and he or she will check for signs of...

That nicotine addition must be real strong. I can't imagine why anyone would want to smell like that. I can understand why people can't quit my problem is how did anyone get past that stink and start.

OK, I thought I didn't have anything more to add, but I just read a little bit about vasomotor rhinitis. It really sounds possible this could be what is going on with me (except still no explanation for the fever part. That's just weird.). Vasomotor rhinitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My nose constant runs, especially when I exercise, step into the cold, or eat spicy foods, etc., etc. I keep the Kleenex company in business,...

Quote: Originally Posted by summer2007 Simple Girl Second hand smoke kills 50,000 NON smokers a year in the United States....so IMO it can also make you feel sick. That number is purely manufactured by the anti-smoking lobby. There has never been a death certificate with second hand smoke as the cause of death. The closest thing to an actual study was a meta-study the EPA did just cross referencing lung cancer deaths from people who...