I wouldn't worry about it. Just follow your prescription and when you use short term stuff, space the usage apart. I don't believe the Advair/Serevent is any more dangerous than the Albuterol. I do know that they were all looked at recently by the FDA for removal from the market place.

I've been using this stuff from their inception and have had no problems.

To me the biggest issue is to track your dosage. For example, should you forget you used Advair in the morning and double dose then use Albuterol or equivalent and space the doses too closely together, that might be dangerous. If you can't remember if you took your Advair, err on the safe side and skip that dose.

I suspect that the deaths are of those who have severe chronic Asthma and just keep dosing on the stuff in a desperate attempt to get relief. I had a case that before I knew that aspirin aggravated my Asthma, I got into a situation where I could barely breath and the Albuterol had zero affect. This was before Serevent. Had I not known about the danger of the Beta -Agonists, I might have kept puffing away on the stuff. That was in the early days of the trend to take an Aspirin a day for cardio health. It took 10-days of Aspirins before the serious Asthma started.

Al