Coroner: Anti-smoking drug, Champix, contributed to suicide

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(ABC News) The Queensland coroner has reopened an investigation into the death of a 22-year-old Brisbane man who committed suicide just days after starting medication to quit smoking.

Timothy Oldham left a box of anti-smoking drug Champix next to his suicide tape recording when he died in 2013.

He began taking the drug just eight days prior to taking his life.

As part of an investigation, the Queensland coroner has now begun reviewing all suicides in Australia where the person had taken Champix.

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