Consumerism Commentary - Latest Comments in Airborne to Pay $23.3 Million for False Advertising

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Pfff. — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:29:12 -0000

...and don't forget the natural male enhancement developed by Joe the Plumber.

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people are dumb — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:17:46 -0000

I'm so glad that they have been caught for false advertising. For years I have wondered about the 6.99 product co-workers swear by that was developed by a teacher. oh joy! that's almost as good as the birth control i use developed by a homeless bum and the heart medication developed by a local fireman.

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Mrs. Micah — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:02:13 -0000

Interesting. Micah swears by plain old vitamins to boost your immune system if you might be coming down with something. He just takes a couple multivitamins and an extra vitamin C.

I wonder how different Airborne is. I think extra vitamins are less expensive.

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Dog — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:28:24 -0000

What about the generic brands? Wal-Borne, etc???

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Walter Q — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:31:47 -0000

I wonder. Anecdotal evidence does not count, I suppose, but then the placebo effect and a lot of hand washing seems to work for me. Since Airborne I haven't walked a virus off an airplane, have managed to reduce the number of colds I get from about four or five a year to one every other year.If that's just an od of vitamin c. then I will gladly o.d.

I do credit hand washing and a few habit changes with most of the relief, however, and do not take Airborne, unless I feel one coming on or am flying or doing a food expo.

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Leighann — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:07:58 -0000

I actually have been taking 10,000 units of Vit C daily for 4 years now. I keep my body flooded at all times, knowing that this is a water soluable vitamin and excess will be expelled. I haven't been ill, not even a cold, in years and I work in an overly heated office with recycled air full of people who get sick. I was always getting bronchitus, the flu, and pneumonia at least once a year, sometimes more and was "sick" and tired of it. I've had no ill effects that I am aware of, I'm 47 and my skin texture has also improved. I'm not a doctor, nutritionist, clinician, etc., but it works for me. I took Airborne on occasion but when I found out that it was basically a whopping dose of Vit C, I just switched to the vitamin.

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Daniel Drucker — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:47:48 -0000

I just purchased a Dinosaur Repellant Rock last week. So far, so good!

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Alex — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:30:21 -0000

This is the patent tripe that those unfamiliar with the biochemstry. Vitamin C has a metabolic half-life of roughly half an hour. If it is coming out of your urine, that means it was previously in your blood where it was doing the most good, mopping up free radical damage. Here's the thing. When severely sick, the body can utilize up to 200,000% of the "daily value" of Vitamin C. Virtually all animals save for primates, certain species of fish, and fruit eating bats produce their own vitamin C. We are lacking a single enzyme that prevents its manufacture from glucose, and our systems can utilize hundreds of _grams_ with no evidence of toxicity.

159 abstracts
a 1981 Protocol
Vitamin C selectively kills cancer cells?
36 years of scientific abstracts dealing with Vitamin C's efficacy in treating a variety of diseases

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Jordan Lund — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:10:24 -0000

Ever see a fat snake? Buy my snake oil!

Seriously though... now all we need is for Head-On to go away...

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lol — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:44:20 -0000

If you want to remove chlorine from water, pour it from tap 24-48 hours in advance before using it and just let it sit in an open container exposed to the air (in a clean place). The chlorine evaporates, many gardeners do this for sensitive plants.

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Yana — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:41:58 -0000

Thanks for the input, Willfe. I am trying to get as much info as I can, and have seen that Aquafina and Dasani are basically tap water. I saw another one online, I think called "Penta". Very expensive, but basically manipulated tap water. I looked at Brita filters which claim to reduce chlorine, etc. Until I find a filter I like, I'm using Crystal Geyser, which does not have chlorine in it. A good filter would be great, though, because I can see that expanding our use of bottled water is a very expensive proposition.

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Willfe — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:46:52 -0000

Yana: I hate to tell you this but many of the bottled waters sold by bottlers/distributors here are just pushing tap water through a water filter then bottling it.

You can buy yourself a filtering water bottle, or a filtering pitcher, or a filter for your kitchen sink, and you'll be drinking the same stuff that comes out of the bottles, only much cheaper, and probably a good deal cleaner.

Do note that boiling water helps to sterilize it and partially remove what little contaminants are actually in it (there really isn't much of anything in our water, all the scare-mongering stories aside). If you're that concerned, though, a simple filtration system will produce all the clean water you need for cooking and drinking. Installing a house-wide filter on your water mains gets rid of that worry entirely -- you'll even be showering and washing your clothes with "bottled" water.

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Yana — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:45:56 -0000

That's interesting, and makes me wonder. How did a teacher get this product on the market, and how could any claims be made? I sell a food supplement, but the law requires that I make no claim as to any benefit from using it, since I am not a medical or pharmaceutical professional. We've heard of Airborne, but never tried it. The amount of vitamin C in it is double what we take daily - more than I would ever want to take.

Also, Lisa, what do you mean by "groundwater"? I'm worried about chlorine and fluoride in tap water, and while I don't know how to get away from the fluoride, I've just begun using bottled water more extensively - to avoid ingesting chlorine. I got to thinking that chlorine in our coffee, rice, boiled potatoes and vegetables, etc, is probably less than a good thing for our health.

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Mr. — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:44:38 -0000

I looked at airborne briefly, because it had a following. For the price I looked closely enough to see that there was nothing to it. Plus the fact that they would throw around that it was created by a teacher, like that was something worth inspiring trust.

I saw the 20/20 were they went to the supposed 'house/lab' of the people who conducted the trials. They were long since gone.

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Mark @ TheLocoMono — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:43:26 -0000

That's interesting, I swear by Airborne but as far as false advertising goes, 20 million is a wee bit low don't you think?

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SingleGuyMoney — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:08:49 -0000

Interesting post. I just purchased some Airborne last week due to the number of my coworkers being sick. So far, so good!

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Lisa — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:41:28 -0000

Not to mention that the EPA is looking into monitoring for drugs like Prozac in our groundwater.

Lisa

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susan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:25:41 -0000

My sister, a certified health educator, says that americans have the most expensive urine in the world due to all the unnecessary suppliments we take.