Table 4

 Massachusetts regimen smoking measures and cigarette design features and selected market categories during 1997–2005 (mean (SE))

YearNicotine yield (mg/cig)Total nicotine (mg/cig)Nicotine conc (mg/g)Number of puffs% filter ventilationProportion of full flavour brands*
*Binomial exact computation of SE.
19971.70 (0.05)11.85 (0.20)11.34 (0.15)22.81 (1.70)0.40 (0.05)
19981.68 (0.03)12.56 (0.14)17.13 (0.14)11.83 (0.12)27.39 (1.43)0.40 (0.04)
19991.68 (0.03)12.54 (0.14)17.27 (0.13)11.94 (0.12)29.01 (1.46)0.37 (0.03)
20001.73 (0.03)13.22 (0.15)18.26 (0.15)11.89 (0.11)29.09 (1.41)0.37 (0.03)
20011.82 (0.03)13.67 (0.16)18.88 (0.18)12.24 (0.12)28.18 (1.34)0.37 (0.03)
20021.82 (0.03)13.56 (0.20)18.59 (0.20)12.28 (0.15)27.51 (1.31)0.38 (0.03)
20031.84 (0.04)14.53 (0.19)19.74 (0.16)12.50 (0.15)28.67(1.39)0.35 (0.03)
20041.91 (0.04)14.40 (0.19)19.62 (0.16)12.34 (0.14)26.08 (1.24)0.35 (0.03)
20051.90 (0.04)13.93 (0.22)18.71 (0.17)12.43 (0.16)25.36 (1.30)0.43 (0.04)
Total1.79 (0.01)13.46 (0.06)18.52 (0.06)12.13 (0.05)27.47 (0.47)0.38 (0.01)