FDA: Anti-smoking drug Chantix linked to more than 500 suicides

[Alan Selk]

1. So it goes

Not only is Chantix associated with suicides but an increase in heart events.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-12/pfizer-s-chantix-produced-more-heart-concerns-fda-says.html

It now carries a black box warning and is considered one of the more risky drugs on the market.

In the meantime Chantix is still being pushed with aggressive advertising and doctors are handing it out like candy. The same pharmaceutical front groups as in the American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, etc that push ineffective pills and potions (nicotine gum and patches that have less then a 5% success rate after 20 months) are still lying about the risk of smokeless tobacco and electronic cigarettes which have about 1% of the risk of inhaling smoke.

So it goes in the land of corrupt tobacco control.