Responding to a news media request for a quote regarding a murder/attempted suicide case in which the defendant claims he acted as a result of depression induced by Chantix, Pfizer publicly refuted the FDA's required black box warning and denied that there is any reliable evidence that Chantix can cause severe neuropsychiatric events, such as suicide or similar violent actions.

Senator Boxer also has no business excoriating the e-cigarette executives as she, too, sold out to Big Tobacco by supporting the legislation which exempted menthol from the cigarette flavoring ban. And she, too, has failed to sponsor legislation - now or any time in the past four years - that would correct the problem now by banning menthol cigarettes.

In other words, the TCLC is calling for a virtual ban on electronic cigarettes. The upheaval created by this ban would destroy all but the largest of the electronic cigarette companies, and would essentially deliver the industry to the tobacco companies. However, even the tobacco companies would have to remove their electronic cigarettes from the market until their applications were approved, a process that would likely take many years.

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