The drug sides are worse than the disease!

[TZ]

I am so fucking sick of this false logic. I can't believe people don't understand that a drug maker has to legally list all the possible side effects that have been found and the likely hood of having any of the ones particularly the severe ones let alone multiple ones are totally unlikely!
Here's what pissed me off- some longtime smoker posted that he'd rather take his chance with getting fucking lung cancer than deal with Chantix after reading all the side effects.
Well 1) Today of all days to read this, my stepfather is having part of his lung removed because its cancerous (prognosis for recovery is good, its confined to a smallish spot on the lung). He's got a very long and painful recovery ahead (its only gonna hurt when he breathes you know).2) He also quit his 2 pack aday 40 yr smoking habit last year thanks to Chantix, with only vivid dreams as a side effect. God knows how much worse his cancer could be if he hadn't quit.
I'm just so sick of fucking morons who have no clue how hideous cancer is, what a horrid painful disease/death it can be. And that they can't wrap their silly little brains around the concept of risk and statistical likely hood. I guess its the same distorted thinking as the anti-vax woos who think that any vaccine that isn't 100% safe should be used.
:rant: