There is nothing inconsistent with a medical publication reporting on activities impacting health.
You may not like it, but it doesn’t make the facts of the matter untrue.
Same as tobacco use. Or alcohol use. Or riding a motorcycle without a helmet.
It would be inconsistent not to identify the rise in rural crime and firearms related injuries and deaths associated with firearms hunting seasons.
Denying they occur is denying the obvious.
Many things impact health. There was a time that medical journals followed a fact and science based peer review process. Opinion was not a standard of health care. Medicine has become cluttered with the promotion of social agenda, maybe similar to the auto industry where sales are lackluster for things we are shamed into, but don’t really want.