Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have warned that there are health risks of vaping, including for e-cigarette-associated lung injury, their safety profile has not been definitively characterized, according to Bjurlin and his colleagues
Both estimations are very simple calculations and is a sign that it might not be representative at all of the situation, especially when applied worldwide
See Francesca Astorri, EXCLUSIVE: How extremists smuggled $1 billion in cigarettes to finance terror, AlArabiya News, May 20, 2020, DOS, DOJ, DOT, DOHS, DOHHS, The Global Illicit Trade in Tobacco: A Threat To National Security, December 2015, [21] The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), FATF Report: Illicit Tobacco Trade, June 2012, 9, Illicit%20Tobacco%20Trade.pdf
An e-cig is a very sophisticated piece of technology
Data: Orzechowski and Walker Taxing the Poor Low-income Americans continue to smoke at an alarming rate