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Asthma and Smoking in Queens

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This is a map of Queens. The darker the green means that more people have asthma in tat area. Yellow dots indicate frequency of smoking. The more yellow dots, the more people smoke in that area. There does not seem to be a good correlation between the frequency of smoking and asthma. After making a scattergram, it was clear that there was little correlation between smoking and the frequency of asthma in queens. Seems that frequency of asthma might have to do with something else. Other research might need to be done to figure out cause of asthma.

 

 

Smoking and Asthma in Queens

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This map marks the areas where people who smoked over 100 cigarettes and still currently smoke (gradient) and shows the concentration of people who have been told by a doctor that they have asthma (dot density) in Queens. Coincidentally, the areas with a higher concentration of dots are generally darker than the areas with a lighter concentration of dots. As asthma can be triggered by environmental factors, living or working an area with a higher incidence of smoking might lead to a greater chance of developing asthma. It is interesting, however, to see that Astoria, an area where power plants spew smoke into the air, is an area where there are not many frequent smokers but has a high concentration of people with asthma.