Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a briefing document in advance of a joint advisory committee meeting held on Wednesday, September 14, 2016. See FDA Briefing Document. It was a joint meeting of the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and was held to discuss “Serious Neuropsychiatric Adverse Events with Drugs for Smoking Cessation.” Id. See title of report. Pfizer, the manufacturer of Chantix (varenicline), a product intended to help patients quit smoking, has asked FDA to remove a box warning of potential psychiatric risks to patients, including suicide and suicidal ideation. Pfizer provided data from a post-marketing study of 8,000 subjects at 140 sites around the world that was designed to assess the real-world risk of suicidal behavior associated with the use of smoking cessation drugs to support its request that the boxed warning be removed.…