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I have a cold, and have sworn by airborne for years now. In my opinion, it DOES work. I can't believe they're being sued. In fact, if I take it at the start of my cold, I do notice my cold is shorter/not as intense. I should probably be taking it every day, but I don't remember to.
Well, opinions are subjective, science is not. But I can't believe they have a class action lawsuit against them. Anyone who can read could look at the list of ingredients and see that it was just the equivalent of a multivitamin.




Seems like EVERYONE I know swears by this stuff. I always thought it was mind over matter. I never took it.
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It isn't an anti-viral, so it doesn't really "work". Your body is still fighting the cold virus on its own. But its always good to boost your immune system so it works more efficiently, ie rest, fluid, vitamins, etc.
I'm with Andygirl on this one. Not suprising, people are stupid.
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Originally Posted by Mia M
It's just vitamins, but they do help. Everyone knows vitamins are great for you!




I've personally always thought the stuff was useless. Then again, I was raised to just ride the cold out with a glass of OJ to keep my hydrated and refuse medicine unless, say, coughing was out of control, or you were running an excessive fever.
I take either Emergen-C or Airborne everyday to keep my immune system up to par, especially since I've been under high stress for quite some time.
It's not even worth the effort to me if I did desire to get money.





Well this stuff use to help my mucus loosen up, whenever I felt stuffy.




I know. OJ is cheaper. And even then there are no conclusive studies that state vitamin C will help with colds or the flu. I just don't drink water. I drink enough OJ to put a farmer's kid through school.
Well, you know how there are those generic versions of airborne... I'm wondering if the lawsuit would extend to those. Like, are they going to sue Vons or CVS?
I also knew that it was just vitamins but I can see how it's false advertising if there's no proof that it does keep colds away. Does anyone have a bottle on them? I thought that if you had small print that said that the statement wasn't approved by the FDA, it was okay... like a lot of the diet pills and other herbal stuff out there.
If you think school is hard, try being stupid.
The pessimist in me figures that there are a lot of products like these manufactured by people that know full well that their products make claims that are unsubstantiated, but the whole point is to make money, banking on ignorance or the placebo effect to fill in where the science is lacking.
So from that pessimistic point of view, I can barely care at all if their profits all go bye bye due to a lawsuit, except... if I was even more pessimistic I'd probably think only the lawyers will be paid off and consumers will never see a dime![]()
This just makes me laugh. Am I the only one who's been told repetitively to get airborne and thought it was a waste of money? Apparently not. Ah, validation, lol!





eating a damn orange is as good, really, if one has a cold.
i'd fill out the online claim form. you get money back for 6 products if you have no receipts and all products you've bought if you have receipts.
that's free money if you ever bought airborne and just don't have the receipts...
I have one friend who always insists that I take it on flights.lol. It's just like Emergen C. This just goes to show that you can sue someone ese for your own gullibility.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.





Ha! I knew that stuff was overrated.
But a class action law suit? Come on. Getting sick is part of life. I don't understand why everyone thinks they should be impervious to disease.
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i'm with guen....if people would just READ the ingredients, they would see it's nothing more than a multivit with high c & zinc and some herbs.
it's just that people are gullible and don't like to admit to that fact
kudos on their marketing though! lol
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I personally think Airborne works way better than Emergence and plan on still buying it...
I wonder what about Zicam and other stuff that says it makes a cold last longer??
And also, how pathetic is your life that you would sue a company over a fucking 6 dollar product that didnt work???




It amuses me to no end, that despite many millions of dollars of scientific research done by drug companies, people believe a schoolteacher could come up with any sort of "preventitive cure". It's "success" is the placebo effect working it's magic.
Supplements are largely unregulated, which leads to all sorts of creative marketing and wealthy marketers. There is some product advertised on the radio in which they actually use the line, "Emerging studies tend to show product x may..." And people manage to delude themselves into believing this actually means something.
Well, just to be obtuse for a moment (and by the way I agree with you), I'd like to see more double blind studies of the placebo effect itself. Basically give two groups the same supplements, telling one group they have proven benefits, and the other that they are not yet proven to provide any benefit, and watch what happens.
I"m guessing most of us wouldn't be surprised if the results show that humans tend to heal themselves faster if they are under the belief that they are taking an effective treatment. Which strangely means... a cheap effective way to treat people is to give them something neutral, along with a dose of hope and otherwise false information (in effect, trick them into healing themselves faster). Hmmm... it is cheap, safe, and effective, and yet feels wrong on multiple levels.
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