cigs_small: Nicotine, Tar and CO of Cigarettes

In speegled/fosdata: Data for use with the book "Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R", by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair

Nicotine, Tar and CO of Cigarettes

Description

In 2000, the Federal Trade Commission tested cigarettes to determine the amount of nicotine, tar and carbom monoxide in them. This data set also contains the other information that the FTC collected at that time. This data set is randomly selected from the full data set 'cigs' by filtering on size == 100 and sampling one of each brand.

Usage

cigs_small

Format

A data frame with 118 observations of 9 variables.

brand_name

Brand name of the cigarette Each brand name is unique.

flavor

Information about the cigarette that came after the brand name, such as Ultra or LtSlim

co

Carbon monoxide content, in mg, rounded to nearest mg

nic

Nicotine content, in mg, rounded to nearest .1

tar

Amount of tar, in mg, rounded to nearest mg

size

All sizes are equal to 100

filter

All filters are equal to F

pack

Factor with levels HP = hard pack, SP = soft pack

menthol

Factor with levels no = not menthol, and yes = menthol.

Details

From the authors: "This report contains data on the "tar," nicotine, and carbon monoxide yields of 1294 varieties of cigarettes manufactured and sold in the United States in 1998."

Source

'"Tar," nicotine, and carbon monoxide of the smoke of 1294 varieties of domestic cigarettes for the year 1998. Federal Trade Commission report, 2000.'

https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/2000-report-tar-nicotine-and-carbon-monoxide-covering-1998/1998tarnicotinereport_0.pdf

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