The Federal Trade Commission annually rates varieties of domestic cigarettes according to their tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide content. The United States Surgeon General considers each of these substances hazardous to a smoker's health. Past studies have shown that increases in the tar and nicotine content of a cigarette are accompanied by an increase in the carbon monoxide emitted from the cigarette smoke. The data n this dataset are taken from Mendenhall and Sincich (1992) and are a subset of the data produced by the Federal Trade Commission. For a random sample of 25 brands of cigarettes, 5 variables are reported: brand: Brand name tar: Tar content (mg) nicotine: Nicotine content (mg) weight: Weight (g) co1: Carbon monoxide content (mg)