| Dosage Control Sucks
Exubera dosage control is lousy. Apparently there is a 1mg dose and a 3mg dose which works out to 10 and 30 units. The inhaled form is less potent than injected, how much I don't know, but still anything like dosing in units of 10 is not relevant for insulin dependent diabetics. Also 3 1mg units is significantly more potent than 1 3mg units! (This info from Pfizer press release on Europen Commission ok on Exubera).
The press coverage plays up "no more painful needles", but the real market is for Type IIs who either are not controlled at all or could use a supplement to save their pancreas from burning out. For a Type II who still produces insulin, the dosage problem is not as server as long as the Exubera is used for only partial coverage. | 
