 In this case, the authors claimed active vapors had 2.2 times the risk of cancer as a control group. But their logistic regression showed that people who never used cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamines also had a 2.2 times higher risk of getting cancer. Why didn't the authors run with this finding that cocaine might be a cancer preventative? Because it's absurd and would likely have brought ridicule. According to the researchers' data, being white raises your cancer risk by 2.6 times. Using a middle income of between 25,000 to 65,000 raises your risk 2.3 times. The authors didn't report these spectacular findings either. This paper is among the worst of the anti-vaping articles that managed to get published in respectable peer-reviewed journals and cited by regulators and legislators. But even the best studies haven't surmounted a key statistical issue, and they tended to distort the evidence to make vaping look dangerous.