SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Onslow County

Tobacco Use

Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your entire life?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 15,004 6,909 45.8 44.8-46.8 8,095 54.2 53.2-55.2
-Onslow County 389 205 55.3 49.8-60.7 184 44.7 39.3-50.2
GENDER
Male 148 95 64.7 56.1-72.5 53 35.3 27.5-43.9
Female 241 110 46.2 39.4-53.2 131 53.8 46.8-60.6
RACE
White 292 164 58.5 52.2-64.5 128 41.5 35.5-47.8
Other 94 39 45.3 33.8-57.2 55 54.7 42.8-66.2
AGE
18-44 190 86 48.7 40.7-56.7 104 51.3 43.3-59.3
45+ 196 117 62.3 54.6-69.4 79 37.7 30.6-45.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 179 107 62.6 54.7-70.0 72 37.4 30.0-45.3
Some College + 208 98 49.4 41.7-57.1 110 50.6 42.9-58.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 230 123 56.2 48.9-63.2 107 43.8 36.8-51.1
$50,000+ 87 40 50.2 38.8-61.6 47 49.8 38.4-61.2

Back to Tobacco Use.

^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 (MAHEC): 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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 06APR05.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook