nosmokeday {tigerstats}

Nicotine Withdrawal and Accidents

Description

Results of study conducted in Great Britain to see if nicotine withdrawal increases the risk of an accident.

Format

A data frame with 10 observations on the following 3 variables.

year

calendar year

Injuries.before.NSD

number of injury accidents on the day one week prior to National No Smoke Day in the United Kingdom

Injuries.on.NSD

number of injury accidents on National No Smoke Day in the United Kingdom

Source

J. Knowles, "Nicotine withdrawal and road accidents", Science, 400, 128, (8 July 1999). Found in Whitlock and Schluter, The Analysis of Biological Data.