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Table 3 Ratios of mean urinary cotinine concentration for nicotine yield by nicotine dependence

From: Smoking cigarettes of low nicotine yield does not reduce nicotine intake as expected: a study of nicotine dependency in Japanese males

Machine measured nicotine yield

Ratio of mean urinary cotinine concentration

  

FTND score

  

Category (mean) (mg)

Ratio of mean nicotine yield

       

Total

  

0–3

4–6

7–10

  

0.9–2.4 (1.1)

1

1

(560)

1

(993)

1

(1333)

1

(1010)

0.2–0.8 (0.5)

0.45

0.58

(327)

0.81

(808)

0.92

(1226)

0.76

(770)

0.1 (0.1)

0.09

0.32

(179)

0.53

(529)

0.85

(1138)

0.53

(535)

  1. Numbers in parentheses are geometric means of urinary cotinine concentration (ng/mgCr) FTND:Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence