Smoking Cessation Drug Linked to 1,001 New Serious Adverse Events

As will diet drugs.

"The smoking-cessation drug varenicline (Chantix) has been associated with 1,001 serious adverse events -- including 50 deaths -- during the first quarter of 2008, a drug-safety watchdog group said today.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices said that total put varenicline at the top of its list of drugs associated with serious injuries during the quarter. Heparin was second. The institute's drug-safety watchers include Curt D. Furberg, M.D., Ph.D., of Wake Forest.

Since varenicline was approved in 2006, there have been 3,325 reported serious injuries in the U.S., including 112 deaths, the institute said."

Still think there is a safe drug that will "cure" your overfatness?

There ain't and there won't be.

Diet drugs are malpractice and unnecessary.

Drop the weight naturally.