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

2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Tobacco Indicators-MALES

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	Total Respond.^	Never	14 or under	15-16	17-18	19 0r older
TOTAL	1,968	115	5.6	4.2- 7.5	255	14.3	11.9-17.2	498	26.5	23.5-29.8	515	26.7	23.7-30.0	585	26.8	24.1-29.8
RACE
White	1,519	88	6.1	4.3- 8.5	213	15.4	12.6-18.7	403	27.4	24.0-31.0	404	27.4	23.9-31.1	411	23.8	20.8-27.0
African American	317	18	3.7	2.0- 6.7	26	6.7	4.0-11.0	66	23.2	16.1-32.2	79	25.8	19.1-33.8	128	40.7	32.7-49.2
Asian	5	2	66.6	22.9-93.0	0	0.0	. - .	2	22.3	3.8-67.6	0	0.0	. - .	1	11.1	1.3-55.0
Native American	47	3	5.1	1.3-17.8	7	35.8	12.5-68.5	9	23.6	6.8-56.4	12	13.4	5.8-27.9	16	22.2	9.6-43.6
Other Minorities	72	2	1.6	0.4- 6.4	9	14.6	5.4-33.6	18	27.3	13.8-46.9	19	27.0	14.4-44.7	24	29.6	16.9-46.4
HISPANIC
Hispanic	77	2	1.2	0.3- 5.2	9	11.1	3.4-31.1	19	29.0	15.3-48.0	21	28.8	16.0-46.2	26	29.8	17.3-46.3
-English Speaking	24	0	0.0	. - .	3	4.3	1.1-15.3	6	31.9	11.1-63.7	7	46.8	19.9-75.6	8	17.0	6.2-39.0
-Spanish Speaking	53	2	1.5	0.3- 6.3	6	12.6	3.5-36.3	13	28.4	13.3-50.8	14	25.1	12.0-45.2	18	32.4	17.8-51.6
Non-Hispanic	1,891	113	5.9	4.4- 7.9	246	14.5	12.0-17.5	479	26.4	23.3-29.7	494	26.6	23.5-29.9	559	26.7	23.8-29.7
AGE
18-24	101	4	8.0	2.4-23.5	14	17.5	8.3-33.2	38	38.1	25.5-52.6	33	26.6	16.8-39.4	12	9.7	4.7-19.0
25-34	236	20	10.5	6.0-17.8	23	11.1	6.4-18.6	60	22.5	15.5-31.4	72	33.8	24.4-44.7	61	22.0	15.6-30.1
35-44	341	22	4.6	2.5- 8.4	29	9.7	6.0-15.3	102	31.2	24.2-39.1	85	22.3	16.4-29.6	103	32.2	25.3-40.0
45-54	417	25	2.9	1.8- 4.8	57	16.1	10.4-24.3	95	22.8	16.7-30.3	107	25.7	19.9-32.4	133	32.5	26.0-39.6
55-64	396	13	1.9	0.9- 4.0	71	19.5	14.5-25.8	94	25.5	19.8-32.3	104	27.0	21.3-33.6	114	26.0	20.4-32.7
65-74	300	21	7.5	4.1-13.3	38	11.3	7.1-17.3	73	23.5	17.3-31.2	75	28.5	21.7-36.4	93	29.2	22.5-37.0
75+	171	9	7.1	3.1-15.2	21	14.7	8.4-24.4	35	23.3	15.5-33.3	39	22.1	14.5-32.3	67	32.9	24.4-42.6
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S.	406	18	3.3	1.7- 6.2	85	19.2	13.8-26.0	114	28.9	22.1-36.9	99	27.1	19.8-35.8	90	21.5	15.9-28.6
H.S. or G.E.D.	641	32	4.1	2.5- 6.7	81	14.5	10.3-19.9	185	30.8	25.3-36.9	169	26.2	21.1-32.1	174	24.4	19.9-29.5
Some Post-H.S.	463	25	7.3	3.6-14.0	51	12.5	8.0-19.0	113	25.1	19.2-32.2	123	25.3	19.9-31.6	151	29.8	24.0-36.3
College Graduate	453	40	8.2	5.4-12.4	38	11.9	7.6-18.3	82	18.7	13.9-24.6	123	28.4	22.9-34.7	170	32.7	26.9-39.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000	199	10	9.2	4.4-18.4	42	27.8	17.2-41.7	48	19.2	12.6-28.2	47	20.6	13.4-30.2	52	23.2	15.6-33.1
$15,000- 24,999	401	19	2.1	1.2- 3.6	61	14.6	10.0-20.7	107	28.6	21.7-36.7	110	27.8	21.4-35.3	104	26.9	20.7-34.2
$25,000- 34,999	229	9	7.1	3.0-15.8	23	19.8	11.6-31.7	59	19.5	13.4-27.5	67	29.3	21.1-39.1	71	24.4	17.4-33.0
$35,000- 49,999	293	16	5.2	2.4-10.8	24	7.0	3.7-12.8	69	31.9	24.4-40.6	94	30.4	23.5-38.3	90	25.4	19.1-33.1
$50,000-74,999	247	17	7.8	4.0-14.7	26	10.8	6.6-17.2	66	27.5	19.9-36.5	68	30.0	22.6-38.5	70	24.0	17.6-31.8
$75,000+	222	15	7.7	3.1-18.2	24	11.7	6.1-21.3	44	21.8	14.5-31.3	64	27.9	19.6-38.1	75	30.8	22.9-40.0
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe	108	1	1.0	0.1- 7.0	17	15.1	9.0-24.2	32	34.2	24.5-45.5	25	20.7	13.7-30.1	33	28.9	19.9-39.9
Guilford	92	5	5.1	1.8-13.4	11	12.7	6.8-22.3	16	17.1	9.8-28.1	32	34.4	24.0-46.4	28	30.8	20.7-43.1
Mecklenburg	83	4	10.0	2.8-30.2	9	16.5	7.1-33.7	16	17.2	9.6-29.0	27	30.6	20.1-43.7	27	25.7	16.5-37.7
Orange	87	7	6.7	2.9-14.9	11	10.1	5.0-19.3	24	38.4	21.1-59.2	19	15.8	9.0-26.2	26	29.0	17.9-43.4
Wake	76	7	7.9	3.1-18.6	6	9.8	3.0-27.6	15	18.1	10.0-30.6	24	33.9	22.2-47.8	24	30.3	19.8-43.3
Chatham/Lee	84	9	7.5	3.7-14.6	9	11.3	5.1-23.2	19	20.1	12.3-31.2	19	22.3	13.4-34.8	28	38.7	27.4-51.4
Nash/Wilson	81	3	1.8	0.5- 5.7	5	4.9	2.0-11.4	16	16.9	10.1-27.0	27	34.6	23.4-47.9	30	41.8	29.1-55.7
Craven/Pamlico	101	3	3.5	1.0-10.9	9	8.8	4.5-16.6	21	18.1	11.5-27.2	24	27.2	18.1-38.6	44	42.5	32.1-53.5
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	108	8	5.8	2.8-11.8	18	17.3	10.5-27.0	28	26.5	17.4-38.1	28	23.6	15.5-34.2	26	26.8	15.3-42.7
Appalachian/Wilkes	90	3	2.5	0.7- 8.0	21	29.4	15.0-49.5	24	22.7	14.0-34.5	24	29.2	17.9-43.8	18	16.3	9.5-26.7
Franklin/Gran./Vance	106	9	5.8	2.9-11.2	10	11.3	4.8-24.1	37	39.5	27.5-52.9	18	15.8	9.3-25.4	32	27.6	17.9-40.2
Graham/Swain/Jackson	98	6	6.0	2.1-15.9	12	10.0	4.6-20.6	27	18.8	10.1-32.3	29	26.3	14.2-43.6	24	38.8	16.1-67.7
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland	108	10	11.9	5.9-22.6	17	18.4	11.0-29.2	23	16.4	10.4-24.8	27	25.2	16.7-36.1	31	28.2	19.7-38.6
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson	84	2	1.5	0.3- 6.6	11	11.8	6.2-21.3	24	26.9	17.3-39.4	22	23.9	14.7-36.3	25	35.9	22.4-52.0
Northeast NC I	85	9	12.7	5.4-27.0	13	16.1	8.8-27.8	21	27.0	16.9-40.2	18	18.5	11.4-28.6	24	25.7	16.7-37.3
Northeast NC II	112	7	4.8	2.1-10.5	12	9.3	5.1-16.2	29	27.9	18.8-39.4	32	28.3	19.2-39.6	32	29.7	20.2-41.4
Northeastern Partnership	197	16	7.1	3.9-12.7	25	11.3	7.3-17.0	50	27.7	20.3-36.5	50	25.4	18.4-33.9	56	28.5	21.1-37.3
Mountain AHEC	291	12	5.4	2.3-12.3	37	9.8	6.5-14.7	80	26.3	19.4-34.5	79	30.9	20.6-43.5	83	27.6	19.9-36.8
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC	689	38	4.6	2.9- 7.4	82	12.2	8.6-17.0	167	27.8	22.3-34.0	178	24.5	19.8-29.9	224	30.9	25.8-36.5
Piedmont	829	57	6.5	4.3- 9.6	103	15.6	12.0-20.0	208	26.1	21.9-30.7	220	27.0	22.9-31.5	241	24.9	21.2-29.0
Western NC	450	20	4.3	2.1- 8.5	70	13.9	9.3-20.4	123	25.8	20.0-32.5	117	30.0	22.0-39.5	120	26.0	19.7-33.5

Total
Respond.^

Never

14 or under

15-16

17-18

19 0r older

C.I.(95%)

TOTAL

1,968

115

5.6

4.2- 7.5

255

14.3

11.9-17.2

498

26.5

23.5-29.8

515

26.7

23.7-30.0

585

26.8

24.1-29.8

RACE

White

1,519

6.1

4.3- 8.5

213

15.4

12.6-18.7

403

27.4

24.0-31.0

404

27.4

23.9-31.1

411

23.8

20.8-27.0

African American

317

3.7

2.0- 6.7

6.7

4.0-11.0

23.2

16.1-32.2

25.8

19.1-33.8

128

40.7

32.7-49.2

Asian

66.6

22.9-93.0

0.0

. - .

22.3

3.8-67.6

0.0

. - .

11.1

1.3-55.0

Native American

5.1

1.3-17.8

35.8

12.5-68.5

23.6

6.8-56.4

13.4

5.8-27.9

22.2

9.6-43.6

Other Minorities

1.6

0.4- 6.4

14.6

5.4-33.6

27.3

13.8-46.9

27.0

14.4-44.7

29.6

16.9-46.4

HISPANIC

Hispanic

1.2

0.3- 5.2

11.1

3.4-31.1

29.0

15.3-48.0

28.8

16.0-46.2

29.8

17.3-46.3

-English Speaking

0.0

. - .

4.3

1.1-15.3

31.9

11.1-63.7

46.8

19.9-75.6

17.0

6.2-39.0

-Spanish Speaking

1.5

0.3- 6.3

12.6

3.5-36.3

28.4

13.3-50.8

25.1

12.0-45.2

32.4

17.8-51.6

Non-Hispanic

1,891

113

5.9

4.4- 7.9

246

14.5

12.0-17.5

479

26.4

23.3-29.7

494

26.6

23.5-29.9

559

26.7

23.8-29.7

AGE

18-24

101

8.0

2.4-23.5

17.5

8.3-33.2

38.1

25.5-52.6

26.6

16.8-39.4

9.7

4.7-19.0

25-34

236

10.5

6.0-17.8

11.1

6.4-18.6

22.5

15.5-31.4

33.8

24.4-44.7

22.0

15.6-30.1

35-44

341

4.6

2.5- 8.4

9.7

6.0-15.3

102

31.2

24.2-39.1

22.3

16.4-29.6

103

32.2

25.3-40.0

45-54

417

2.9

1.8- 4.8

16.1

10.4-24.3

22.8

16.7-30.3

107

25.7

19.9-32.4

133

32.5

26.0-39.6

55-64

396

1.9

0.9- 4.0

19.5

14.5-25.8

25.5

19.8-32.3

104

27.0

21.3-33.6

114

26.0

20.4-32.7

65-74

300

7.5

4.1-13.3

11.3

7.1-17.3

23.5

17.3-31.2

28.5

21.7-36.4

29.2

22.5-37.0

75+

171

7.1

3.1-15.2

14.7

8.4-24.4

23.3

15.5-33.3

22.1

14.5-32.3

32.9

24.4-42.6

EDUCATION

Less Than H.S.

406

3.3

1.7- 6.2

19.2

13.8-26.0

114

28.9

22.1-36.9

27.1

19.8-35.8

21.5

15.9-28.6

H.S. or G.E.D.

641

4.1

2.5- 6.7

14.5

10.3-19.9

185

30.8

25.3-36.9

169

26.2

21.1-32.1

174

24.4

19.9-29.5

Some Post-H.S.

463

7.3

3.6-14.0

12.5

8.0-19.0

113

25.1

19.2-32.2

123

25.3

19.9-31.6

151

29.8

24.0-36.3

College Graduate

453

8.2

5.4-12.4

11.9

7.6-18.3

18.7

13.9-24.6

123

28.4

22.9-34.7

170

32.7

26.9-39.0

HOUSEHOLD INCOME

Less than $15,000

199

9.2

4.4-18.4

27.8

17.2-41.7

19.2

12.6-28.2

20.6

13.4-30.2

23.2

15.6-33.1

$15,000- 24,999

401

2.1

1.2- 3.6

14.6

10.0-20.7

107

28.6

21.7-36.7

110

27.8

21.4-35.3

104

26.9

20.7-34.2

$25,000- 34,999

229

7.1

3.0-15.8

19.8

11.6-31.7

19.5

13.4-27.5

29.3

21.1-39.1

24.4

17.4-33.0

$35,000- 49,999

293

5.2

2.4-10.8

7.0

3.7-12.8

31.9

24.4-40.6

30.4

23.5-38.3

25.4

19.1-33.1

$50,000-74,999

247

7.8

4.0-14.7

10.8

6.6-17.2

27.5

19.9-36.5

30.0

22.6-38.5

24.0

17.6-31.8

$75,000+

222

7.7

3.1-18.2

11.7

6.1-21.3

21.8

14.5-31.3

27.9

19.6-38.1

30.8

22.9-40.0

COUNTY/REGION**

Buncombe

108

1.0

0.1- 7.0

15.1

9.0-24.2

34.2

24.5-45.5

20.7

13.7-30.1

28.9

19.9-39.9

Guilford

5.1

1.8-13.4

12.7

6.8-22.3

17.1

9.8-28.1

34.4

24.0-46.4

30.8

20.7-43.1

Mecklenburg

10.0

2.8-30.2

16.5

7.1-33.7

17.2

9.6-29.0

30.6

20.1-43.7

25.7

16.5-37.7

Orange

6.7

2.9-14.9

10.1

5.0-19.3

38.4

21.1-59.2

15.8

9.0-26.2

29.0

17.9-43.4

Wake

7.9

3.1-18.6

9.8

3.0-27.6

18.1

10.0-30.6

33.9

22.2-47.8

30.3

19.8-43.3

Chatham/Lee

7.5

3.7-14.6

11.3

5.1-23.2

20.1

12.3-31.2

22.3

13.4-34.8

38.7

27.4-51.4

Nash/Wilson

1.8

0.5- 5.7

4.9

2.0-11.4

16.9

10.1-27.0

34.6

23.4-47.9

41.8

29.1-55.7

Craven/Pamlico

101

3.5

1.0-10.9

8.8

4.5-16.6

18.1

11.5-27.2

27.2

18.1-38.6

42.5

32.1-53.5

Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

108

5.8

2.8-11.8

17.3

10.5-27.0

26.5

17.4-38.1

23.6

15.5-34.2

26.8

15.3-42.7

Appalachian/Wilkes

2.5

0.7- 8.0

29.4

15.0-49.5

22.7

14.0-34.5

29.2

17.9-43.8

16.3

9.5-26.7

Franklin/Gran./Vance

106

5.8

2.9-11.2

11.3

4.8-24.1

39.5

27.5-52.9

15.8

9.3-25.4

27.6

17.9-40.2

Graham/Swain/Jackson

6.0

2.1-15.9

10.0

4.6-20.6

18.8

10.1-32.3

26.3

14.2-43.6

38.8

16.1-67.7

Hoke/Robeson/Scotland

108

11.9

5.9-22.6

18.4

11.0-29.2

16.4

10.4-24.8

25.2

16.7-36.1

28.2

19.7-38.6

Bladen/Columbus/Sampson

1.5

0.3- 6.6

11.8

6.2-21.3

26.9

17.3-39.4

23.9

14.7-36.3

35.9

22.4-52.0

Northeast NC I

12.7

5.4-27.0

16.1

8.8-27.8

27.0

16.9-40.2

18.5

11.4-28.6

25.7

16.7-37.3

Northeast NC II

112

4.8

2.1-10.5

9.3

5.1-16.2

27.9

18.8-39.4

28.3

19.2-39.6

29.7

20.2-41.4

Northeastern Partnership

197

7.1

3.9-12.7

11.3

7.3-17.0

27.7

20.3-36.5

25.4

18.4-33.9

28.5

21.1-37.3

Mountain AHEC

291

5.4

2.3-12.3

9.8

6.5-14.7

26.3

19.4-34.5

30.9

20.6-43.5

27.6

19.9-36.8

NC REGIONS***

Eastern NC

689

4.6

2.9- 7.4

12.2

8.6-17.0

167

27.8

22.3-34.0

178

24.5

19.8-29.9

224

30.9

25.8-36.5

Piedmont

829

6.5

4.3- 9.6

103

15.6

12.0-20.0

208

26.1

21.9-30.7

220

27.0

22.9-31.5

241

24.9

21.2-29.0

Western NC

450

4.3

2.1- 8.5

13.9

9.3-20.4

123

25.8

20.0-32.5

117

30.0

22.0-39.5

120

26.0

19.7-33.5

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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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