SEC Form 4 

FORM 4

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*
TAM PETER Y

(Last) | (First) | (Middle)

(Street) 

(City) | (State) | (Zip)

2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol 
VIVUS INC [ VVUS ]

5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer 
(Check all applicable) 
| Director | | 10% Owner
X | Officer (give title below) | | Other (specify below)
VP, Business Planning

3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
01/27/2004

4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) 
X | Form filed by One Reporting Person
| Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) | 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) | 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) | 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) | 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) | 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) | 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) | 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
| | | Code | V | Amount | (A) or (D) | Price | | |

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)

1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) | 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security | 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) | 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) | 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) | 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) | 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) | 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) | 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) | 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) | 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) | 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
| | | | Code | V | (A) | (D) | Date Exercisable | Expiration Date | Title | Amount or Number of Shares | | | |
Incentive Stock Option (right to buy) | $4.58 | 01/26/2004 | | A | | 20,026 | | ^(2) | 01/26/2014 | Common Stock | 20,026 | ^(1) | 20,026 | D |
Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy) | $4.58 | 01/26/2004 | | A | | 14,974 | | ^(2) | 01/26/2014 | Common Stock | 14,974 | ^(1) | 14,974 | D |
Explanation of Responses:
1. There is no purchase price necessary. This is an option grant.
2. There is no exercisable date. This is an option grant.
| By: /s/ Linda Derboghosian For: Peter Tam | 01/27/2004
| ** Signature of Reporting Person | Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned, as a Section 16 reporting person of VIVUS, Inc. (the
"Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints Mark Casper and Linda
DerBoghosian, and each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:

1.      complete and execute Forms 3, 4 and 5 and other forms and all
amendments thereto as such attorney-in-fact shall in his or her discretion
determine to be required or advisable pursuant to Section 16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended) and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder, or any successor laws and regulations, as a
consequence of the undersigned's ownership, acquisition or disposition of
securities of the Company; and

2.      do all acts necessary in order to file such forms with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, any securities exchange or national
association, the Company and such other person or agency as the attorney-in-fact
shall deem appropriate.

The undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not
assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's
responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 (as amended).

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to
the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the Company and the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 1st day of November, 2003.

Signature:  /s/ Peter Tam

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