So, being currently unemployed, I end up watching a fair amount of daytime television. (not soaps or anything, mostly documentaries and stuff, but still daytime tv). Most of the commercials are targeted to either housemoms or older retired people. makes sense. Well, I've recently seen not one, but two different companies, advertising portable oxygen units! Now, I have worked in the advertising business for over 20 years, and I can tell you that these companies wouldn't be running these commercials on national cable networks if there were not a LOT of potential customers out there. This is so sad. I mean it's sad anytime anyone suffers this affliction, but even more sad to me that there are so many of them, in their older years, that advertising these on television is financially viable.

I'm convinced that this is the result of a generation of people growing up during a time when practically everybody smoked! (the 40's, 50's and even 60's) Even though the vast majority of these people eventually quit, once it became widely known what the health effects were, seems the damage was done and now there are a significant number of older people living with copd and needing portable oxygen units.

I'm so glad I quit. And I pray, pretty much every day, that I have quit in time to avoid this end. I also hope that generations coming up behind these (including mine) make television advertising for portable oxygen units less financially viable by having far fewer of us as customer prospects!