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Chantix lawsuits are rising around the country due to heart attack and stroke!

Pfizer's Chantix has spent much time in the news and in court. The black-box warning advises,

The drug side effects state that all patients must be monitored for neuropsychiatric symptoms including changes in behavior, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, suicide ideations and behaviors, and attempts at suicide. Those behaviors occurred in people with and without psychiatric conditions.

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In August, a group of tobacco companies filed suit against the FDA stating that the graphic images released to the public as part of the 2009 Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act are against their constitutional rights. The 41-page complaint filed in Washington, D.C., federal district court states that the labels are an unprecedented attempt to force the industry to serve as a spokesperson for the FDA's plight to end tobacco use.

This is precisely the type of controlled speech the First Amendment prohibits. While the government may require plaintiffs to provide purely factual and uncontroversial Continue Reading