{"id":6410,"date":"2012-05-27T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pharma-mkting.com\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:19:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:19:29","slug":"shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/","title":{"rendered":"“Shoe” Comic Strip Spoofs Pfizer’s Chantix (unbranded) Side Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Sunday newspaper comics section prominently features the “Shoe” comic strip<\/a> on the front page. It’s a favorite of mine. Today’s Shoe spoofs the side effects of Rx drugs — specifically a smoking-cessation drug. Although it doesn’t mention any brand names, Chantix is the only non-nicotine drug approved by the FDA for smoking cessation currently available by prescription.<\/p>\n

Here’s the comic, which I pinned on my “Fun Pharma Images<\/a>” Pinterest board:<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n
\nSource: shoecomics.com<\/a> via Pharma<\/a> on Pinterest<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\nAccording to the Shoe web site “The strip’s namesake, Shoe, is based on legendary North Carolina journalist Jim Shumaker, Jeff MacNelly’s first newspaper boss. P. Martin Shoemaker is a grouchy, cigar-smoking, newspaperbird with a tough side and an even tougher other side.”<\/p>\n

Even tough birds, it seems, can suffer drug side effects. Shoe mentions “chest pains, bad breath and a hacking cough” as his main side effects. This is funny in context of the quit smoking indication but Chantix has been linked to a much more serious side effect: suicide. For more on that see “Chantix May Be More Dangerous Than Smoking!<\/a>” and the chart below:<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n
\nSource: pharmamkting.blogspot.com<\/a> via Pharma<\/a> on Pinterest<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\nOf course, Shoe may be taking some other drug such as a generic version of Zyban.<\/p>\n

The question remains: would Shoe be better off smoking his cigars or taking a medication to quit?<\/p>\n

I’m not a cigar smoker, but I wouldn’t inhale cigar smoke if I were. But there’s the secondary effects of inhaling the smoke that’s released into the surrounding air by cigars.<\/p>\n

In any case, Shoe would be a terrible boss to work for whether he quit smoking or not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Sunday newspaper comics section prominently features the “Shoe” comic strip on the front page. It’s a favorite of mine. Today’s Shoe spoofs the side effects of Rx drugs — specifically a smoking-cessation drug. Although it doesn’t mention any brand names, Chantix is the only non-nicotine drug approved by the FDA for smoking cessation currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[572,354,113,108],"topic":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n"Shoe" Comic Strip Spoofs Pfizer's Chantix (unbranded) Side Effects - Pharma Marketing Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Shoe" Comic Strip Spoofs Pfizer's Chantix (unbranded) Side Effects - Pharma Marketing Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My Sunday newspaper comics section prominently features the “Shoe” comic strip on the front page. It’s a favorite of mine. Today’s Shoe spoofs the side effects of Rx drugs — specifically a smoking-cessation drug. Although it doesn’t mention any brand names, Chantix is the only non-nicotine drug approved by the FDA for smoking cessation currently […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pharma Marketing Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-05-27T13:29:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-02-21T01:19:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pmn-logo-intro-post-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"744\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"419\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Pharma Guy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Pharma Guy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Shoe\\\" Comic Strip Spoofs Pfizer's Chantix (unbranded) Side Effects - Pharma Marketing Network\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-27T13:29:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-02-21T01:19:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/763fc249c59c91ce203db612d81a75a1\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"“Shoe” Comic Strip Spoofs Pfizer’s Chantix (unbranded) Side Effects\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/\",\"name\":\"Pharma Marketing Network\",\"description\":\"Pharma Marketing Network\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/763fc249c59c91ce203db612d81a75a1\",\"name\":\"Pharma Guy\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/87853617a5e31233716811d09cdefdf7?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/87853617a5e31233716811d09cdefdf7?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Pharma Guy\"},\"description\":\"Pharmaguy\u2122 is a \u201cconstructive critic\u201d of pharma marketing and publishes commentary on the Pharma Marketing Blog and on Scoop.it.\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/author\/ehs-pharmaguy\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"Shoe\" Comic Strip Spoofs Pfizer's Chantix (unbranded) Side Effects - Pharma Marketing Network","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"Shoe\" Comic Strip Spoofs Pfizer's Chantix (unbranded) Side Effects - Pharma Marketing Network","og_description":"My Sunday newspaper comics section prominently features the “Shoe” comic strip on the front page. It’s a favorite of mine. Today’s Shoe spoofs the side effects of Rx drugs — specifically a smoking-cessation drug. Although it doesn’t mention any brand names, Chantix is the only non-nicotine drug approved by the FDA for smoking cessation currently […]","og_url":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/","og_site_name":"Pharma Marketing Network","article_published_time":"2012-05-27T13:29:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-02-21T01:19:29+00:00","og_image":[{"width":744,"height":419,"url":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pmn-logo-intro-post-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Pharma Guy","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Pharma Guy","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/","url":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/","name":"\"Shoe\" Comic Strip Spoofs Pfizer's Chantix (unbranded) Side Effects - Pharma Marketing Network","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-05-27T13:29:00+00:00","dateModified":"2019-02-21T01:19:29+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/763fc249c59c91ce203db612d81a75a1"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/shoe-comic-strip-spoofs-pfizers-chantix\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"“Shoe” Comic Strip Spoofs Pfizer’s Chantix (unbranded) Side Effects"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/#website","url":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/","name":"Pharma Marketing Network","description":"Pharma Marketing Network","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/763fc249c59c91ce203db612d81a75a1","name":"Pharma Guy","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/87853617a5e31233716811d09cdefdf7?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/87853617a5e31233716811d09cdefdf7?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Pharma Guy"},"description":"Pharmaguy\u2122 is a \u201cconstructive critic\u201d of pharma marketing and publishes commentary on the Pharma Marketing Blog and on Scoop.it.","url":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/author\/ehs-pharmaguy\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10728,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions\/10728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}