Non-Smoking Corpses

Ah, they've finally noticed the drug they were pushing makes people suicidal:

Champix, which is also known as varenicline and sold in the U.S. as Chantix, topped the table, despite only having been on sale for four of the years studied. Ninety per cent of reports of depression or suicidal behaviour, including suicide, related to the drug.

This compared with 7 per cent for another drug, Zyban, and 3 per cent for patches, gums and other nicotine replacement products, the journal PLoS ONE reported.

I took this stuff years ago. Luckily, I had already learned to completely ignore my feelings and keep on living. I guess, technically, it worked. Once the stuff reaches a certain level in your body, the nicotine from the cigarettes can't get to the proper receptors. Unfortunately, it also blocks every shred of human happiness, so I quit taking the drug soon after I quit smoking, despite what it said on the label.

Some one is actually trying to take what they call an 'anti-smoking vaccine' to market. This thing is most likely called a vaccine because if companies can fit the legal definition of vaccine they can have some legal immunity to, oh I don't know, causing massive numbers of suicides! Of course, the actual definition of vaccine doesn't allow such malarkey, so what we probably have here is a more permanent version of hell, one in which those receptors that respond so well to nicotine get capped in some unhappy way.