It&#x27;s as if we switched, in a culture of frequent duels, from dueling with pistols to the death, to dueling with new, fairly safe boxing gloves to the submission.<p>&quot;But they cause concussions&quot;, you say.  &quot;But the children will be more likely to take up dueling&quot;, you say.  &quot;We should ban them&quot;.  &quot;Look, we banned putting stickers on guns long ago so they wouldn&#x27;t appear to children, but they&#x27;re putting stickers on boxing gloves now!  The horror!&quot;<p>&quot;But look, the problem is this obscene need to fight each other over honor.  It&#x27;s a problem of the patriarchy.  We should publish hundreds of studies showing this while glancing furtively at the &#x27;ban boxing&#x27; folks&quot;<p>The death toll from smoking rivals the death toll from all the wars in the 20th century.  Even after this was made clear, people found themselves unable to quit, smoking until they die.  The evidence suggests that e-cigs are somewhere in the vicinity of coffee as a danger to your health.  They are incomparably safer, and if just one percent of e-cig users began using them in order to quit smoking, that&#x27;s worth it.<p>This study is completely uncontrolled, and being promoted as a hit piece.  &quot;Environment influences gene expression&quot; is not novel.  If they want to impress on me that there is anything of any importance whatsoever, they need to do the same gene expression tests on groups who ate hummus vs who did not eat hummus, groups who took a daily walk vs groups who did not, groups who drink tea vs groups who did not.