Tobacco companies have always said that the evidence that cigarettes cause cancer is unclear and it actually is. What they know is that people who smoke are more likely to get cancer. So their internal math shows that getting the drugs descheduled could increase their sales by 25%. They basically got FDA approval by being like, don't worry about side effects.
Fen-Phen & Redux were "the next miracle drugs" in the '90s, claiming to help people lose dramatic amounts of weight in just three months. But within a few short years, they'd been pulled from the market. They were just too effective! (Just kidding, they killed some people.)
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