Scientists - you know, those people with white labcoats and glasses who tirelessly Mine The Seam Of Truth for all mankind – have been getting very excited about the role of Money in the development of new Wonder Drugs.
Useful Definitions:
‘Wonder Drug’
A Wonder Drug is a drug which has just been launched, so it has yet [...]
Filed under: Champix/Chantix, Drugs on Trial, Hypnotherapy by Chris
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by Chris Holmes
*Update: If you or a loved one has suffered a bad reaction to Champix and you are based in the U.K., you can report it to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) here. The more people do that the clearer the true picture will become. Protect others! Report [...]
Filed under: Champix/Chantix, Drugs on Trial, Publicity by Chris
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by Chris Holmes
*Update: If you or a loved one has suffered a bad reaction to Champix and you are based in the U.K., you can report it to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) here. The more people do that the clearer the true picture will become. Protect others! Report [...]
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Spurious New ‘Uses’ for Nicotine
Not so long ago this site was blasted in a blog written by one of the passionate converts to the new Electronic Cigarette. He took exception to my statement that nicotine is “just a poison”, and that it has no therapeutic use or any recreational use (there is no high), so [...]
Filed under: Drugs on Trial, Nicotine by Chris
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Scientific proof that Nicotine Replacement doesn’t work any better than willpower is being suppressed even further now! pr-inside.com which published the damning press release from freedom2choose that made the key facts public a few weeks ago has now suddenly ‘unpublished’ it!
This came to light after the smokers’ rights organisation sent out another message warning about [...]
Filed under: Drugs on Trial, Nicotine, Publicity, The Campaign by Chris
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So we had all the scientific evidence we needed, now, to prove that NHS Stop Smoking Services were no more successful than willpower alone, and therefore a total waste of taxpayers’ money.
Using the very reports that the Department of Health had assured us were the “scientific basis” for the advertising slogan of “four times more [...]
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Well thanks to Mr Cameron Gordon of the Department of Health I have now had a chance to study carefully the various reports that he claims are the scientific basis for the famous advertising slogan that smokers are “up to four times more likely to quit” if they use NHS Stop Smoking Services.
In email communications [...]
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“You are up to four times more likely to succeed” in stopping smoking if you use NHS Stop Smoking services, that’s what smokers have been told by the Department of Stealth and NHS bosses.
As I have already demonstrated in the Evidence section of this site, for years the NHS published “success rates” with figures ranging [...]
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So we finally got a response from the Department of Health that was supposed to give us access to the ’scientific’ reports that they claim underpin the suggestion that smokers are “up to four times more likely to be successful” in quitting if they use NHS services to help them.
This came in the form of [...]
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Brief update: On 28th April 2009, the Department of Health sent Belinda (freedom2choose organisation) an email containing four links to relevant information, plus copies of three reports in an attachment.
Needless to say, this will take a little time for us to read and assess. Meanwhile I did not want my previous post [...]
Filed under: Drugs on Trial, Nicotine, The Campaign by Chris
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