 [ Symptoms ] can you get sick if you just keep using cough drops for the hell of it as if a person is addicted to it or has a probem i have a friend that i am concerned about she keeps taking cough drops right and left for no reason at all shes also 80 yrs old at some points she smells like hall is the cough drop you can smell it miles away is this good or bad and why [ Disease ] it should be fine assuming she does not fall asleep with one in her mouth and aspirates it