R/tobaccotax.R

In ttbbeer: US Beer Statistics from TTB

#' The tobaccotax dataset
#' @description This dataset contains a list of historical tax rates for
#'  tobacco and tobacco products from TTB.
#' @source \url{http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/historical-tax-rates}
#' @format A data frame with 46 observations of 3 variables:
#' \describe{
#'  \item{ITEM}{ITEM, specific tobacco-based product.}
#'  \item{FROM}{FROM, date of starting tax rate. The first date does not have a listed day, so 09/01/1862 is used.}
#'  \item{TO}{TO, date of ending tax rate. The last row is considered the present day rate indicated by the package creation date.}
#'  \item{RATE}{RATE, in dollars. Small cigarettes through Large cigars are per thousand. Chewing tobacco through Roll your own are per pound. Cigarette papers and tubes are per 50.}
#'  }
"tobaccotax"