The point of the article is not about smoking at all, it's about bad science. The last paragraph: "It may be argued that this is news about an old and settled

The point of the article is not about smoking at all, it's about bad science. The last paragraph: "It may be argued that this is news about an old and settled subject. And who cares about smoking anyway. But smoking is really a secondary issue. The primary issue is the integrity of science. This has no use-by date. When the processes of science are misused, even if for what seems a good reason, science and its practitioners are alike degraded."