BRFSS 2003 - North Carolina: (How old were you when you first started smoking cigarettes regularly?*)

2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Tobacco Indicators-FEMALES

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	Total Respond.^	Never	14 or under	15-16	17-18	19 0r older
TOTAL	2,448	170	6.2	4.9- 7.9	221	11.0	9.1-13.2	496	21.7	19.2-24.4	572	24.3	21.7-27.0	989	36.8	33.9-39.8
RACE
White	1,922	137	6.8	5.2- 8.8	179	11.6	9.5-14.2	412	23.2	20.3-26.3	466	24.4	21.6-27.5	728	34.0	30.8-37.2
African American	391	25	4.3	2.3- 8.0	28	6.8	4.0-11.2	47	13.0	8.3-19.8	85	24.2	18.4-31.1	206	51.7	44.1-59.2
Asian	4	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	2	18.2	2.6-64.7	0	0.0	. - .	2	81.8	35.3-97.4
Native American	81	5	3.0	1.0- 9.1	6	5.7	2.2-14.2	26	32.8	16.5-54.6	14	18.8	6.9-42.1	30	39.6	22.9-59.2
Other Minorities	47	3	2.3	0.4-11.7	8	20.3	7.2-45.5	8	18.4	7.1-40.1	6	25.6	9.7-52.5	22	33.3	16.3-56.1
HISPANIC
Hispanic	38	1	3.6	0.5-22.6	4	20.8	5.4-55.0	4	15.7	3.6-48.4	9	28.3	9.3-60.4	20	31.5	13.9-56.8
-English Speaking	31	1	4.7	0.6-27.8	3	8.6	1.9-31.4	4	20.1	4.6-56.6	8	35.5	11.9-69.1	15	31.1	11.9-60.2
-Spanish Speaking	7	0	0.0	. - .	1	64.3	16.5-94.2	0	0.0	. - .	1	2.8	0.3-23.9	5	32.9	5.3-81.2
Non-Hispanic	2,408	169	6.3	4.9- 8.0	216	10.6	8.8-12.8	491	21.9	19.3-24.6	563	24.2	21.7-27.0	969	37.0	34.1-40.0
AGE
18-24	139	5	3.0	1.1- 8.1	26	17.7	10.3-28.6	46	32.5	22.4-44.4	47	34.6	23.7-47.4	15	12.3	5.6-24.7
25-34	316	15	5.7	2.7-11.4	42	16.3	10.6-24.1	84	24.5	18.5-31.8	76	26.0	19.7-33.5	99	27.5	21.2-35.0
35-44	475	23	3.7	2.0- 6.8	62	13.4	9.5-18.6	133	24.9	19.6-31.0	108	25.0	19.8-31.0	149	33.0	26.8-39.8
45-54	570	41	8.5	5.2-13.6	45	10.0	6.8-14.5	106	17.9	13.7-23.1	139	21.9	17.5-27.0	239	41.7	35.8-47.9
55-64	410	27	4.7	2.7- 8.1	26	6.4	3.9-10.4	58	20.4	13.9-28.8	89	19.5	14.3-25.9	210	49.1	41.4-56.7
65-74	331	37	8.8	5.1-14.6	15	4.0	2.1- 7.6	39	12.0	7.9-17.8	74	25.9	19.4-33.8	166	49.2	41.5-57.0
75+	191	21	13.0	6.9-23.3	5	4.1	1.3-12.7	25	11.5	6.4-19.9	33	16.9	10.8-25.3	107	54.4	44.0-64.5
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S.	413	30	5.5	2.9-10.2	61	17.8	12.6-24.6	92	26.1	19.7-33.8	86	22.8	17.1-29.8	144	27.8	21.8-34.7
H.S. or G.E.D.	801	46	6.0	3.6- 9.7	68	10.7	7.6-14.8	159	21.1	17.1-25.8	178	21.7	17.6-26.4	350	40.5	35.4-45.8
Some Post-H.S.	655	36	3.5	2.1- 5.7	59	10.5	7.1-15.1	157	24.8	19.8-30.5	161	25.9	20.8-31.7	242	35.4	29.8-41.4
College Graduate	575	58	10.3	7.1-14.5	33	6.5	4.1-10.3	87	15.3	11.3-20.4	147	27.2	22.1-33.0	250	40.7	35.0-46.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000	362	18	2.1	1.2- 3.6	40	11.1	6.7-17.7	81	24.8	17.8-33.5	66	20.5	14.9-27.5	157	41.6	34.1-49.5
$15,000- 24,999	534	32	5.4	3.1- 9.2	51	12.5	8.6-17.8	127	28.4	22.5-35.1	117	23.3	18.1-29.5	207	30.5	24.8-36.8
$25,000- 34,999	291	20	4.1	2.1- 7.9	29	14.8	8.6-24.5	52	20.9	14.0-29.9	68	21.7	15.0-30.4	122	38.5	30.0-47.8
$35,000- 49,999	313	16	2.4	1.3- 4.6	22	11.5	6.7-19.0	68	20.3	14.3-28.1	71	23.8	17.4-31.7	136	41.9	34.1-50.1
$50,000-74,999	221	15	7.1	3.4-14.1	14	6.9	3.3-14.0	45	22.5	15.3-31.7	68	28.4	20.8-37.4	79	35.1	26.7-44.6
$75,000+	234	28	11.1	6.9-17.4	15	7.5	4.1-13.4	36	18.8	12.5-27.2	68	28.9	21.7-37.4	87	33.7	26.0-42.3
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe	121	9	6.8	3.3-13.2	13	13.6	7.5-23.4	17	12.9	7.7-21.0	26	27.1	17.5-39.3	56	39.7	30.1-50.1
Guilford	112	10	7.9	3.7-16.0	4	2.5	0.9- 6.7	25	24.6	16.0-35.8	31	30.5	20.6-42.5	42	34.6	25.0-45.6
Mecklenburg	106	8	7.8	3.6-16.0	8	7.7	3.7-15.1	13	9.6	5.3-16.9	33	36.4	26.6-47.5	44	38.5	29.0-49.0
Orange	101	15	10.2	5.4-18.3	5	5.1	1.9-12.9	17	25.1	9.4-52.1	26	24.4	14.1-38.8	38	35.2	20.3-53.8
Wake	92	5	5.1	2.1-12.2	5	5.2	2.0-12.6	21	22.5	14.2-33.7	24	28.1	18.1-41.0	37	39.0	28.5-50.6
Chatham/Lee	104	10	8.3	4.1-16.2	8	6.8	3.2-13.9	16	17.4	10.4-27.7	30	30.1	21.3-40.5	40	37.5	28.0-48.0
Nash/Wilson	88	4	3.2	1.1- 8.9	11	16.7	8.8-29.4	19	23.3	14.5-35.4	21	22.6	14.7-33.2	33	34.2	24.1-45.9
Craven/Pamlico	136	4	1.9	0.7- 5.2	12	12.9	7.3-21.7	33	25.5	17.8-35.0	39	28.0	20.5-37.0	48	31.8	24.1-40.6
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	116	5	3.0	1.2- 7.3	8	9.2	4.0-19.9	28	31.8	22.4-43.0	26	19.2	12.8-27.7	49	36.7	27.7-46.7
Appalachian/Wilkes	132	7	4.7	2.1-10.3	12	7.6	4.1-13.6	23	18.2	11.7-27.2	34	29.1	20.7-39.3	56	40.4	31.4-50.1
Franklin/Gran./Vance	117	9	5.5	2.7-10.8	9	9.5	4.9-17.7	26	24.4	15.9-35.4	18	15.7	9.3-25.2	55	45.0	34.8-55.5
Graham/Swain/Jackson	130	16	10.0	5.6-17.3	12	8.5	4.5-15.5	25	23.1	15.2-33.4	25	18.2	11.8-27.0	52	40.3	30.0-51.5
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland	131	8	4.3	1.9- 9.2	13	10.5	5.9-17.9	30	26.7	18.8-36.4	28	21.6	14.7-30.6	52	36.9	28.5-46.3
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson	111	6	4.8	2.0-10.9	11	13.7	6.9-25.2	27	21.2	14.5-29.9	22	17.4	11.3-26.0	45	42.9	33.0-53.5
Northeast NC I	125	8	6.4	2.7-14.3	9	8.8	4.4-16.9	28	27.0	18.4-37.9	25	20.9	13.9-30.3	55	36.8	28.0-46.6
Northeast NC II	126	9	4.3	2.2- 8.2	16	17.3	10.1-28.1	25	20.9	13.9-30.2	26	21.8	14.7-31.0	50	35.8	26.9-45.7
Northeastern Partnership	251	17	5.1	3.0- 8.6	25	14.0	9.0-21.2	53	23.3	17.5-30.2	51	21.4	16.1-27.9	105	36.2	29.6-43.3
Mountain AHEC	378	33	6.2	3.8- 9.8	39	14.8	9.7-21.9	68	20.1	14.7-26.9	80	22.9	17.5-29.4	158	35.9	29.8-42.6
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	863	52	5.8	3.7- 8.8	93	14.6	10.9-19.3	187	21.7	17.4-26.8	195	22.7	18.4-27.7	336	35.2	30.1-40.6
Piedmont	986	75	6.7	4.7- 9.4	70	8.6	6.3-11.7	197	21.8	18.3-25.9	244	25.7	22.0-29.9	400	37.2	33.0-41.5
Western NC	599	43	5.3	3.5- 8.1	58	12.4	8.6-17.4	112	21.2	16.7-26.5	133	22.3	18.0-27.2	253	38.8	33.3-44.6

Total
Respond.^

Never

14 or under

15-16

17-18

19 0r older

C.I.(95%)

TOTAL

2,448

170

6.2

4.9- 7.9

221

11.0

9.1-13.2

496

21.7

19.2-24.4

572

24.3

21.7-27.0

989

36.8

33.9-39.8

RACE

White

1,922

137

6.8

5.2- 8.8

179

11.6

9.5-14.2

412

23.2

20.3-26.3

466

24.4

21.6-27.5

728

34.0

30.8-37.2

African American

391

4.3

2.3- 8.0

6.8

4.0-11.2

13.0

8.3-19.8

24.2

18.4-31.1

206

51.7

44.1-59.2

Asian

0.0

. - .

0.0

. - .

18.2

2.6-64.7

0.0

. - .

81.8

35.3-97.4

Native American

3.0

1.0- 9.1

5.7

2.2-14.2

32.8

16.5-54.6

18.8

6.9-42.1

39.6

22.9-59.2

Other Minorities

2.3

0.4-11.7

20.3

7.2-45.5

18.4

7.1-40.1

25.6

9.7-52.5

33.3

16.3-56.1

HISPANIC

Hispanic

3.6

0.5-22.6

20.8

5.4-55.0

15.7

3.6-48.4

28.3

9.3-60.4

31.5

13.9-56.8

-English Speaking

4.7

0.6-27.8

8.6

1.9-31.4

20.1

4.6-56.6

35.5

11.9-69.1

31.1

11.9-60.2

-Spanish Speaking

0.0

. - .

64.3

16.5-94.2

0.0

. - .

2.8

0.3-23.9

32.9

5.3-81.2

Non-Hispanic

2,408

169

6.3

4.9- 8.0

216

10.6

8.8-12.8

491

21.9

19.3-24.6

563

24.2

21.7-27.0

969

37.0

34.1-40.0

AGE

18-24

139

3.0

1.1- 8.1

17.7

10.3-28.6

32.5

22.4-44.4

34.6

23.7-47.4

12.3

5.6-24.7

25-34

316

5.7

2.7-11.4

16.3

10.6-24.1

24.5

18.5-31.8

26.0

19.7-33.5

27.5

21.2-35.0

35-44

475

3.7

2.0- 6.8

13.4

9.5-18.6

133

24.9

19.6-31.0

108

25.0

19.8-31.0

149

33.0

26.8-39.8

45-54

570

8.5

5.2-13.6

10.0

6.8-14.5

106

17.9

13.7-23.1

139

21.9

17.5-27.0

239

41.7

35.8-47.9

55-64

410

4.7

2.7- 8.1

6.4

3.9-10.4

20.4

13.9-28.8

19.5

14.3-25.9

210

49.1

41.4-56.7

65-74

331

8.8

5.1-14.6

4.0

2.1- 7.6

12.0

7.9-17.8

25.9

19.4-33.8

166

49.2

41.5-57.0

75+

191

13.0

6.9-23.3

4.1

1.3-12.7

11.5

6.4-19.9

16.9

10.8-25.3

107

54.4

44.0-64.5

EDUCATION

Less Than H.S.

413

5.5

2.9-10.2

17.8

12.6-24.6

26.1

19.7-33.8

22.8

17.1-29.8

144

27.8

21.8-34.7

H.S. or G.E.D.

801

6.0

3.6- 9.7

10.7

7.6-14.8

159

21.1

17.1-25.8

178

21.7

17.6-26.4

350

40.5

35.4-45.8

Some Post-H.S.

655

3.5

2.1- 5.7

10.5

7.1-15.1

157

24.8

19.8-30.5

161

25.9

20.8-31.7

242

35.4

29.8-41.4

College Graduate

575

10.3

7.1-14.5

6.5

4.1-10.3

15.3

11.3-20.4

147

27.2

22.1-33.0

250

40.7

35.0-46.7

HOUSEHOLD INCOME

Less than $15,000

362

2.1

1.2- 3.6

11.1

6.7-17.7

24.8

17.8-33.5

20.5

14.9-27.5

157

41.6

34.1-49.5

$15,000- 24,999

534

5.4

3.1- 9.2

12.5

8.6-17.8

127

28.4

22.5-35.1

117

23.3

18.1-29.5

207

30.5

24.8-36.8

$25,000- 34,999

291

4.1

2.1- 7.9

14.8

8.6-24.5

20.9

14.0-29.9

21.7

15.0-30.4

122

38.5

30.0-47.8

$35,000- 49,999

313

2.4

1.3- 4.6

11.5

6.7-19.0

20.3

14.3-28.1

23.8

17.4-31.7

136

41.9

34.1-50.1

$50,000-74,999

221

7.1

3.4-14.1

6.9

3.3-14.0

22.5

15.3-31.7

28.4

20.8-37.4

35.1

26.7-44.6

$75,000+

234

11.1

6.9-17.4

7.5

4.1-13.4

18.8

12.5-27.2

28.9

21.7-37.4

33.7

26.0-42.3

COUNTY/REGION**

Buncombe

121

6.8

3.3-13.2

13.6

7.5-23.4

12.9

7.7-21.0

27.1

17.5-39.3

39.7

30.1-50.1

Guilford

112

7.9

3.7-16.0

2.5

0.9- 6.7

24.6

16.0-35.8

30.5

20.6-42.5

34.6

25.0-45.6

Mecklenburg

106

7.8

3.6-16.0

7.7

3.7-15.1

9.6

5.3-16.9

36.4

26.6-47.5

38.5

29.0-49.0

Orange

101

10.2

5.4-18.3

5.1

1.9-12.9

25.1

9.4-52.1

24.4

14.1-38.8

35.2

20.3-53.8

Wake

5.1

2.1-12.2

5.2

2.0-12.6

22.5

14.2-33.7

28.1

18.1-41.0

39.0

28.5-50.6

Chatham/Lee

104

8.3

4.1-16.2

6.8

3.2-13.9

17.4

10.4-27.7

30.1

21.3-40.5

37.5

28.0-48.0

Nash/Wilson

3.2

1.1- 8.9

16.7

8.8-29.4

23.3

14.5-35.4

22.6

14.7-33.2

34.2

24.1-45.9

Craven/Pamlico

136

1.9

0.7- 5.2

12.9

7.3-21.7

25.5

17.8-35.0

28.0

20.5-37.0

31.8

24.1-40.6

Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

116

3.0

1.2- 7.3

9.2

4.0-19.9

31.8

22.4-43.0

19.2

12.8-27.7

36.7

27.7-46.7

Appalachian/Wilkes

132

4.7

2.1-10.3

7.6

4.1-13.6

18.2

11.7-27.2

29.1

20.7-39.3

40.4

31.4-50.1

Franklin/Gran./Vance

117

5.5

2.7-10.8

9.5

4.9-17.7

24.4

15.9-35.4

15.7

9.3-25.2

45.0

34.8-55.5

Graham/Swain/Jackson

130

10.0

5.6-17.3

8.5

4.5-15.5

23.1

15.2-33.4

18.2

11.8-27.0

40.3

30.0-51.5

Hoke/Robeson/Scotland

131

4.3

1.9- 9.2

10.5

5.9-17.9

26.7

18.8-36.4

21.6

14.7-30.6

36.9

28.5-46.3

Bladen/Columbus/Sampson

111

4.8

2.0-10.9

13.7

6.9-25.2

21.2

14.5-29.9

17.4

11.3-26.0

42.9

33.0-53.5

Northeast NC I

125

6.4

2.7-14.3

8.8

4.4-16.9

27.0

18.4-37.9

20.9

13.9-30.3

36.8

28.0-46.6

Northeast NC II

126

4.3

2.2- 8.2

17.3

10.1-28.1

20.9

13.9-30.2

21.8

14.7-31.0

35.8

26.9-45.7

Northeastern Partnership

251

5.1

3.0- 8.6

14.0

9.0-21.2

23.3

17.5-30.2

21.4

16.1-27.9

105

36.2

29.6-43.3

Mountain AHEC

378

6.2

3.8- 9.8

14.8

9.7-21.9

20.1

14.7-26.9

22.9

17.5-29.4

158

35.9

29.8-42.6

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

863

5.8

3.7- 8.8

14.6

10.9-19.3

187

21.7

17.4-26.8

195

22.7

18.4-27.7

336

35.2

30.1-40.6

Piedmont

986

6.7

4.7- 9.4

8.6

6.3-11.7

197

21.8

18.3-25.9

244

25.7

22.0-29.9

400

37.2

33.0-41.5

Western NC

599

5.3

3.5- 8.1

12.4

8.6-17.4

112

21.2

16.7-26.5

133

22.3

18.0-27.2

253

38.8

33.3-44.6

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* This question was asked of all respondents who reported smoking 100+ cigarettes in his/her lifetime.

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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