The peer-reviewed, two-part regression analysis is too complex to describe here in detail, and the technical discussion has been relegated to "Appendix A: The Econometric Analysis." In general terms, however, the model compares legal, per-capita sales of cigarettes to survey data on the percentage of smokers in each state (the survey data comes from the "Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System" administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Now we know how many cigarettes were supposed to be equating our vaping habit with: 40 cigarettes
Lerner CA, Sundar IK, Watson RM, Elder A, Jones R, Done D, Kurtzman R, Ossip DJ, Robinson R, McIntosh S, Rahman R (2015) Environmental health hazards of e-cigarettes and their components: oxidants and copper in e-cigarette aerosols
Many civet species are hunted for meat or captured for the pet trade, and these may be unsustainable harvests