BRFSS 2005 - Cabarrus County: (About how long has it been since you last smoked cigarettes regularly?*)

	Total Respond.^	Less than 6 mos.	6 mos. to 1 year	Past year	Past 5 years	Past 10 years
North Carolina	4,481	266	7.2	6.1- 8.5	149	4.7	3.8- 5.9	641	16.7	15.2-18.3	493	11.3	10.1-12.6	2,932	60.1	58.1-62.0
-Cabarrus County	103	2	0.9	0.2- 3.6	4	3.5	1.2- 9.7	24	36.8	24.6-51.0	15	11.8	6.8-19.7	58	47.0	35.4-59.0
GENDER
Male	50	0	0.0	. - .	2	2.4	0.6- 9.2	11	39.8	22.6-59.8	6	9.6	4.1-21.1	31	48.3	31.6-65.3
Female	53	2	2.1	0.5- 8.4	2	5.2	1.2-20.0	13	32.5	18.6-50.4	9	14.9	7.4-27.7	27	45.3	30.8-60.6
RACE
White	91	2	1.0	0.2- 4.1	2	2.5	0.6-10.3	21	34.8	22.2-49.9	12	11.2	6.1-19.7	54	50.5	37.8-63.2
Other	10	0	0.0	. - .	2	11.2	2.4-39.9	3	54.6	20.1-85.2	3	17.2	4.2-49.9	2	16.9	3.5-53.3
AGE
18-44	25	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.8	0.2-12.3	13	70.3	49.2-85.3	2	5.3	1.2-20.1	9	22.6	10.4-42.4
45+	78	2	1.4	0.4- 5.8	3	4.6	1.4-14.5	11	15.1	8.0-26.5	13	16.0	9.1-26.6	49	62.9	50.6-73.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	49	0	0.0	. - .	3	4.6	1.4-13.5	9	26.2	12.3-47.3	10	18.0	9.2-32.4	27	51.2	34.7-67.4
Some College +	54	2	1.6	0.4- 6.4	1	2.7	0.4-16.8	15	45.3	28.2-63.5	5	6.8	2.7-16.2	31	43.7	28.5-60.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	49	1	1.3	0.2- 8.6	2	3.5	0.9-13.1	8	26.6	12.0-49.1	8	16.2	7.7-30.9	30	52.5	35.4-69.1
$50,000+	37	1	0.9	0.1- 6.5	2	5.3	1.2-20.9	11	39.2	20.5-61.7	4	9.2	3.3-23.2	19	45.4	27.6-64.6

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* Asked only of respondents who reported smoking 100 cigarettes in their entire lifetime and now smoke not at all (for any length of time).

^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: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
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.

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	Total Respond.^	Less than 6 mos.			6 mos. to 1 year			Past year			Past 5 years			Past 10 years
	Total Respond.^	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)
North Carolina	4,481	266	7.2	6.1- 8.5	149	4.7	3.8- 5.9	641	16.7	15.2-18.3	493	11.3	10.1-12.6	2,932	60.1	58.1-62.0
-Cabarrus County	103	2	0.9	0.2- 3.6	4	3.5	1.2- 9.7	24	36.8	24.6-51.0	15	11.8	6.8-19.7	58	47.0	35.4-59.0
GENDER
Male	50	0	0.0	. - .	2	2.4	0.6- 9.2	11	39.8	22.6-59.8	6	9.6	4.1-21.1	31	48.3	31.6-65.3
Female	53	2	2.1	0.5- 8.4	2	5.2	1.2-20.0	13	32.5	18.6-50.4	9	14.9	7.4-27.7	27	45.3	30.8-60.6
RACE
White	91	2	1.0	0.2- 4.1	2	2.5	0.6-10.3	21	34.8	22.2-49.9	12	11.2	6.1-19.7	54	50.5	37.8-63.2
Other	10	0	0.0	. - .	2	11.2	2.4-39.9	3	54.6	20.1-85.2	3	17.2	4.2-49.9	2	16.9	3.5-53.3
AGE
18-44	25	0	0.0	. - .	1	1.8	0.2-12.3	13	70.3	49.2-85.3	2	5.3	1.2-20.1	9	22.6	10.4-42.4
45+	78	2	1.4	0.4- 5.8	3	4.6	1.4-14.5	11	15.1	8.0-26.5	13	16.0	9.1-26.6	49	62.9	50.6-73.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	49	0	0.0	. - .	3	4.6	1.4-13.5	9	26.2	12.3-47.3	10	18.0	9.2-32.4	27	51.2	34.7-67.4
Some College +	54	2	1.6	0.4- 6.4	1	2.7	0.4-16.8	15	45.3	28.2-63.5	5	6.8	2.7-16.2	31	43.7	28.5-60.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	49	1	1.3	0.2- 8.6	2	3.5	0.9-13.1	8	26.6	12.0-49.1	8	16.2	7.7-30.9	30	52.5	35.4-69.1
$50,000+	37	1	0.9	0.1- 6.5	2	5.3	1.2-20.9	11	39.2	20.5-61.7	4	9.2	3.3-23.2	19	45.4	27.6-64.6

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Cabarrus County

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