Pfizer is expanding its recall of anti-smoking drug Chantix after testing found high levels of carcinogenic material in the pill. The leading prescription for smoking cessation, Chantix is prescribed to over half a million people each year and accounts for $1.1 BILLION in revenue for Pfizer each year.
While commercial cigarettes are undoubtedly unhealthy, the market for pharmaceutical cessation products is enormous. So is the money spent on advertising. Pfizer spends over $200 million a year to promote the drug (which is over 400% more expensive than it was in 2008).
As it turns out, patients looking to improve their quality of life and reduce their cancer risk by quitting cigarettes may have been ingesting a potent carcinogen instead. The cancer-causing agent in question – nitrosamines – are part of a large group of genotoxic chemical carcinogens that can be found naturally in some dip and chewing tobacco products.
Unfortunately, the issue of Pfizer making millions of dollars by selling unsafe drugs isn’t new. Pfizer has paid out BILLIONS in fines and settlements for promoting unsafe products, pushing off-label use on doctors, and lying about the safety or efficacy of their products.
In 2009, Pfizer (and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company) paid $2.3 BILLION to settle criminal and civil liabilities for illegal promotion of their pharmaceutical products. The amount included payment of more than $102 million in civil settlement to six whistleblowers of the company’s fraudulent practices.
Bextra, an anti-inflammatory drug that was withdrawn from the market in 2005 due to safety concerns, was marketed by the company for various off-label uses. The company also illegally promoted several other drugs, including antipsychotic drug Geodon, antibiotic Zyvox, and anti-epileptic drug Lyrica. Healthcare providers received payments for prescribing these drugs to patients for off-label use… literally bribing doctors to prescribe untested and unapproved drugs to patients.
False claims were submitted to government healthcare programs, allowing them to bypass the insurance programs. Pfizer had to pay approximately $1 BILLION to Medicare, Medicaid, and other government insurance programs under the settlement.
And those are just a few examples.
In 1993, anti-seizure drug gabapentin was widely prescribed for off-label uses such as treatment of pain and psychiatric conditions. Courts ruled that Pfizer utilized propaganda campaigns, paid for favorable research and coverage, and suppressed unfavorable research regarding the drug. Several regulatory bodies found the drug ineffective for the associated ailments, and Pfizer paid $430 million in one of the largest settlements to resolve criminal and civil health care liability charges.
A “whistleblower suit” was filed in 2005 against Wyeth, which was acquired by Pfizer in 2009, alleging that the company illegally marketed sirolimus (Rapamune) for off-label uses, targeted specific doctors and medical facilities to increase sales of Rapamune, tried to get transplant patients to change from their transplant drugs to Rapamune, and specifically targeted African-Americans.
According to the whistleblowers, Wyeth also provided doctors and hospitals that prescribed the drug with kickbacks such as grants, donations, and other money. In 2013, the company pleaded guilty to criminal mis-branding violations under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. By August 2014, it had paid $491 million in civil and criminal penalties related to Rapamune.
In June 2010, health insurance network Blue Cross Blue Shield filed a lawsuit against Pfizer for allegedly illegally marketing drugs Bextra, Geodon, and Lyrica. Blue Cross alleged that Pfizer used kickbacks and wrongly persuaded doctors to prescribe the drugs. According to the lawsuit, Pfizer handed out ‘misleading’ materials on off-label uses, sent over 5,000 doctors on trips to the Caribbean or around the United States, and paid them $2,000 honoraria in return for listening to lectures about Bextra.
An internal marketing plan revealed that Pfizer intended to train physicians “to serve as public relations spokespeople.” The case was settled in 2014 for $325 million. Fearing that Pfizer was “too big to fail” (and that prosecuting the company would result in disruptions to Medicare and Medicaid), federal prosecutors instead charged a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Pfizer, shielding them from virtually all financial responsibility.
In 2013, Pfizer agreed to a $964 million settlement for selling insulation laden with asbestos.
That same year, Pfizer withdrew “between $400,000 and a million dollars” worth of ads from Harper’s Magazine following an unflattering article on their depression medication.
In 1994, Pfizer agreed to pay $10.75 million to settle claims by the United States Department of Justice that the company lied to get approval for defective heart valves that killed roughly 500 people.
In 1996, an outbreak of measles, cholera, and bacterial meningitis occurred in Nigeria. Pfizer representatives and personnel set up a clinical trial and administered an experimental antibiotic, trovafloxacin, to approximately 200 children. Local officials reported that more than fifty children (over 25%) died in the experiment, while many others developed mental and physical deformities.
We could continue, but you probably see the pattern here. Pfizer doesn’t care if their products are safe. They’re willing to bribe doctors and silence the opposition to sell more products. They’re willing to KILL CHILDREN to make a buck.
Sound familiar?
You may be thinking “Pfizer has paid BILLIONS for their mistakes. Surely they’ve grown.” You should know that Pfizer is currently worth about $275 BILLION. And all of their bribes and suppression count as “business expenses.” A few billion to keep pushing unsafe drugs is a bargain.
You may also be thinking “What about the FDA? Isn’t the government regulating these companies?” And the answer is:
TECHNICALLY
But for three years, the commissioner of the FDA was a man named Scott Gottlieb. After resigning his post, Gottlieb took on a new position – on the board of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. The conflict of interest is repugnant… and not uncommon.
Check out this article to learn more about the revolving door of pharmaceutical oversight.
So, what’s the takeaway? Stop taking Chantix?
Sure…
Of course…
Obviously…
It causes cancer.
The bigger takeaway is that the pharmaceutical industry is corrupt and willing to lie, steal, and kill to make money. Guess which company has sold the most COVID-19 shots? PFIZER.
If you’ve heard conflicting information about the Pfizer jab’s safety, seen that conflicting information silenced, or have concerns that Pfizer may have inappropriate sway within regulatory bodies… that’s par for the course.
Honestly, this whole article could be summed up in a Facebook post (if Facebook still allowed free speech):
“Pfizer drugs once again shown to be dangerous. Company continues to thrive.”
Stop buying the narrative. Pfizer’s COVID-19 “vaccine” has even less testing than their other drugs. They’ve shown for decades that they’ll do whatever it takes to make a dollar. Lies, bribes, censorship, illegal experimentation, and the murder of children are all documented examples.
If you still believe that Pfizer is looking out for your best interests, then in the words of George Strait, we’ve got some oceanfront property in Arizona we’d like to sell you….
Indoctrination runs deep… The “education” and indoctrination in most aspects of the medical industry has been corrupt for several decades… so much so in the past 70 years; the term “Medical Mafia” is not a joke. They infiltrated colleges and medical schools decades ago… “Medical Associations” dictate what is taught… for the general public they use FEAR to sell their products and their lies… Now they are after indoctrination of our youngest children…. I was visiting my 3 year old granddaughter who was watching a cartoon geared towards toddler or pre-school age children…. The “Coco” something or other, cartoon…. It was a song they were repeating and teaching the children to sing… (about doctor / nurse at pre-school) The children in the cartoon ages 3-5 were in a classroom setting (no parents around) and the kids were lining up, all excited to see the doctor (or nurse), and get their shot… The kids line up and the doctor checks their heart and looks in their ears and throat …. The song went on singing “The doctor will tell you if your healthy” (as if we need a doctor to be told if we are healthy?)… The song went on “the shots don’t hurt, not for long” (paraphrased) … There were NO parents around these 3 or 5 year olds getting medical care, and shots, in the classroom cartoon…. but then I remember in the 1960’s lining up for shots in the school gym in first grade (I don’t remember cartoons telling me I need a doctor to know if I am healthy, but maybe it was subliminal back then too)… but supposedly we don’t have the common sense to know our own bodies when we are sick or not… so a doctor will tell us… The adults were indoctrinated since childhood for the past 60 or 70 years, and passed on to their children the importance of the doctor and the medical industry… FEAR caused parents to abandon their common sense … They turned over their parental instincts to the “medical profession” … A doctor (stranger) who sees their child for 10 minutes has more say over the child’s body than the parents…. I have been around long enough to know medical “science” has been wrong more times than right…. I remember when doctors and “science” said breast feeding your baby was WRONG and not as healthy for the baby as chemical formula…. or when cigarettes were healthy…. seriously!??…. Today, Children are indoctrinated through songs and cartoons to believe doctors know their body better than they do…. Listen to the doctor because he knows best…. kids dancing and singing in a cartoon lining up to get a shot… be excited to see the doctor… be excited to get a shot…. The doctor will tell you if your healthy or not… nothing about being responsible for your own health, nothing about what it takes to be healthy (other than going to the doctor) …. You will be healthier after you see the doctor …. Indoctrinated to believe whatever the doctor says is best for you (who was trained and paid for by pharmaceuticals) … over the past several decades I watched all this happening …. and here we are today… the doctors and “scientists” are now the gods of the human body… Common sense is out the window …. pop a pill, get a shot, and you will be healthier…. it is sickening (no pun intended) … We must rise up and turn this generation back to the TRUTH…. Thanks for all you do!
Thank you for speaking truth to power. Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies have shown blatant disregard for human life to make money. My daughter is a victim of the greed big pharma and doctors perpetrate on people, taking full advantage of our ignorance and trust. At 8, my daughter was given Abilify by a physiatrist because she claimed, within the first 10 minutes of the first visit, that my daughter was bipolar. In reality my daughter had ADHD and a raging bladder infection that was later found – it was e-coli and she spent a month in isolation and had several procedures after loosing her ability to control her bladder. Why? Muscle spasms caused by Abilify effected her bladder but I was told she was lying, inventing symptoms and that Abilify was perfectly safe and that only facial tics should concern me. What I did not know was she was one of 300 children in America that was part of a ‘trial”. There were several others who suffered bladder incontinence or bladder dysfunctions. . I had stopped the Abilify after only 8 weeks because I believed my daughter and found out her pediatrician had, for over 9 months, missed the infection that ravaged her bladder. It was too late. She developed insulin resistance, gained over 60 pounds and was home bound for a year. At 16 she had full thyroid and cancer of 4 lymph nodes, had surgery at Sloan Kettering, ended up with one leg longer then the other and the bone structure of her face permanently changed. I had no recourse although I tried for years to sue the psychiatrist and pharma company. I came to find out that Abilify was being tested on teens at LIJ Hospital in Long Island NY, miles from my home and the doc who prescribed Abilify to my daughter was running that illegal trial. I met 2 boys, aged 16 who had the exact same bladder spasms and suffered for years with pain urinating and an inability to feel when they had to urinate. I will never again trust a doctor or a pharmaceutical company without fully vetting them first. I refuse to get this vaccine and I thank God that my daughter is now a successful deaf and blind Interpreter for the Helen Keller hub in NY.
Agree with all the critiques of Pfizer ( and every other Big Pharma corporation one can think of – all of which need to be thoroughly boycotted). Here is much more:
Duty to Warn:
Partially Explaining Prescription Drug and Vaccine-hesitancy
And Why Nobody, Especially the FDA, Should Trust Pfizer (or J & J, or Moderna, or AstraZeneca, etc) to Develop a Safe Covid-19 Vaccine for Children, Much Less for Adults
A List of Lawsuits Related to a Dozen+ Pfizer Drugs Before Long-term Safety Studies Were Looked at by the FDA!
List Collated by Gary G. Kohls, MD – March 10, 2021 – (886 words)
Pfizer, one of the largest profit-mongering, multinational drug companies on the planet – and one of the five largest vaccine manufacturers – (the other four are Sanofi, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson – AstraZeneca is # 10), has faced thousands of lawsuits for fraudulent marketing and medical injuries caused by some of its most popular drugs.
Pfizer has also set a record for the largest fine paid for a health care fraud lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. (Pfizer paid $2.3 billion in fines, penalties, and settlement for illegal marketing claims.)
Here is a partial list of Pfizer’s most dangerous, most litigated, most lethal drugs If any reader had adverse effects from any of the following Pfizer drugs he/she might want to consult an attorney:
Celebrex, Bextra, Geodon, Zyvox, Lyrica, Neurontin, Protonix, Prempro, Chantix, Depo-Testosterone, Zoloft, Effexor, Feldene, Viagra, Lipitor, Zithromax, etc
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Celebrex and Bextra
Prizer promoted its two COX-2 pain relievers Celebrex and Bextra which generated 7000 lawsuits and a $894 million settlement. Both medications were me-too drugs similar to Merck’s infamous Vioxx, which caused 50,000 lawsuits because of cardiovascular deaths and injuries. Merck settled most of the cases with a $4.85 billion settlement.
Geodon, Zyvox, and Lyrica
Pfizer paid $1 billion to resolve allegations under the civil False Claims Act that the company illegally promoted four drugs – Bextra; Geodon, an anti-psychotic drug; Zyvox, an antibiotic; and Lyrica, an anti-epileptic drug – and caused false claims to be submitted to government health care programs for uses that were not medically accepted indications.
Neurontin
Pfizer paid out $142 million for committing racketeering fraud in the marketing of Neurontin.
Protonix
As part of a larger group of proton pump inhibitor lawsuits, Pfizer faced a number of Protonix lawsuits after it acquired drug company Wyeth who had been accused of marketing the drug for unapproved uses. In 2013, Pfizer agreed to pay $55 million to settle illegal marketing claims but the company may still be facing lawsuits for kidney injuries caused by the medication.
Prempro
Nearly 10,000 Prempro lawsuits were filed by women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The lawsuits were largely settled by 2012 for about $1 billion.
Chantix
Pfizer faced about 3,000 Chantix lawsuits filed by people who claimed they experienced suicidal thoughts and psychiatric disorders after using Chantix for smoking cessation. Pfizer set aside about $288 million and at least some of the cases were settled.
Depo-Testosterone
Thousands of cases of medical injury due to testosterone replacement therapy have been filed. Other drug companies have paid $ billions to settle their cases, however some Pfizer testosterone lawsuits were dismissed.
Zoloft
About 250 Zoloft lawsuits were filed, claiming Pfizer actively promoted the use of Zoloft to pregnant women despite knowledge of birth defect risks from their research. These cases were largely dismissed in 2016 when a judge concluded that there was not enough evidence to prove a link between birth defects and Zoloft use.
Effexor
Effexor was a medication originally produced by Wyeth which has also been the cause of multiple lawsuits. People who filed Effexor lawsuits claimed that it caused birth defects, and separately, suicidal thoughts and behaviors. In September 2015, Effexor lawsuits were dismissed but may have been eligible to refile.
Feldene; Viagra, Lipitor, Zithromax, etc
Environmental Pollution
In 1971 the Environmental Protection Agency asked Pfizer to end its long-time practice of dumping industrial wastes from its plant in Groton, Connecticut in the Long Island Sound. The company was reported to be disposing of about 1 million gallons of waste each year by that method.
In 1991 Pfizer agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle EPA charges that the company seriously damaged the Delaware River by failing to install pollution-control equipment at one of its plants in Pennsylvania.
In 1994 Pfizer agreed to pay $1.5 million as part of a consent decree with the EPA in connection with its dumping at a toxic waste site in Rhode Island.
In 1998 Pfizer agreed to pay a civil penalty of $625,000 for environmental violations discovered at its research facilities in Groton, Connecticut.
In 2002 New Jersey fined Pfizer $538,000 for failing to properly monitor wastewater discharged from its plant in Parsippany.
In 2003, shortly after Pfizer acquired Pharmacia, the company (along with Solutia and Monsanto) agreed to pay some $700 million to settle a lawsuit over the dumping of PCBs in Anniston, Alabama.
In 2005 Pfizer agreed to pay $22,500 to settle EPA claims that the company failed to properly notify state and federal officials of a 2002 chemical release from its plant in Groton that seriously injured several employees and necessitated a major emergency response.
Also in 2005, Pfizer agreed to pay $46,250 to settle charges that its Pharmacia & Upjohn operation had violated federal air pollution rules at its plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
In 2008 Pfizer agreed to pay a $975,000 civil penalty to resolved federal charges that it violated the Clean Air Act at its former manufacturing plant in Groton, Connecticut in the period from 2002 to 2005.
Environmental groups in New Jersey have criticized as inadequate a clean-up plan devised by Pfizer and the EPA for the American Cyanamid Superfund site in Bridgewater, which is considered one of the worst toxic waste sites in the country. Pfizer inherited responsibility for the clean-up through its 2009 purchase of Wyeth.
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Dr Gary G. Kohls lives in the USA and writes articles that deal with the dangers of fascism, corporatism, totalitarianism, militarism, racism, malnutrition, and Big Pharma’s over-drugging and over-vaccinating agendas. In addition, his columns deal with cultural movements that threaten democracy, war, civility, health, freedom, the future of the children and the sustainability and livability of the planet.
Dr Kohls is a board member of the National Health Federation (www.thenhf.com) and is a past member of Mind Freedom International, the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is a signatory to and/or an advocate of the principles of the Great Barrington Declaration, the World Doctors Alliance and Americas Front Line Doctors.
Dr Kohls practiced holistic medicine and preventive psychiatry for the last decades of his medical career, largely helping the psychologically-wounded, over-medicated survivors of psychiatry that had often been mis-diagnosed and over-medicated with cocktails of neurotoxic, frequently addictive psychiatric drugs that had never been tested for safety when used in combinations.
His Duty to Warn columns have been re-published around the world for the last decade. Dr Kohls frequently writes about Big Vaccine’s over-vaccination agendas and Big Medicine’s over-screening, over-diagnosing and over-treating agendas.
I’m so in shock not only about what big pharma is getting away with for so long and it’s getting worse. HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT BELIEVE? !!!!!!!!!!!
My peeps, my friends and mostly my family all think I’m crazy to think that way.
I’ve bought dvd set and books. Hundreds of $ to send out to the people I love. Why would I spend so much money to spend un true stuff? I don’t get it. Why won’t people open their damn eyes. Cuz I’m the black sheep. I am happy to say that I’ve gotten through to one relative. Right now he is the most important cuz My nephew and his wife have a 1 ye old. I sent them a copy of ‘the truth about vac’ shortly after baby was born. They are the only ones that listened to me. FINALLY. I think they wonder why I care so much when I don’t even have kids, why would I spend the money if I didn’t really believe? The rest of the family is pretty pissed about it I think. Parents & g. parents but I don’t care. I can’t imagine how hard it’s been for you. You were part of the first few to REALLY speak up. Peeps are so against anti vax.
Love you guys
You kick ass.
Just me
Hello,
Your article with regard to the anti smoking drug supplied by Pfizer – Chantix – is excellent, thank you. However, there also seems to be another name for this product – this being Champix (is this correct please? Or is this another different product?). If it is the same product is it possible you could also warn people of this also please?
Sincerely,
Barrie
Does any one know what we can do to get out of being forced to getting the COVID vaccination? My daughter needs to get a COVID vaccination by the end of September or she can not continue nursing school. A religious exemption will not be accepted. Can anyone direct me on what to do to protect my family and friends form being forced to receive this vaccination?
Please help!
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Not @ all surprised SPANISH scientists tested vaccine not sure which but said it / they contained graphene oxide & I remember some where said the nose test includes nano particles of I think it was Ethylene Oxide . This area of testing Doctors have said isn’t necessary .The Saliva test is the usual test . Not in your Country so can’t attend but good luck .