BRFSS 2006 - Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes Counties: (States add a special tax to cigarettes. The national average is $0.84. and the NC tax is 5 cents. <br>How much additional tax on a pack of cigarettes would you be willing to support if a considerable portion of the money raised <br> was used to fund smoki ng prevention programs for our youth and provide treatment options for tobacco users who want to quit?)

2006 BRFSS Survey Results: Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes Counties

Tobacco Use Prevention (Asked January--June Only)

States add a special tax to cigarettes. The national average is $0.84. and the NC tax is 5 cents.
How much additional tax on a pack of cigarettes would you be willing to support if a considerable portion of the money raised
was used to fund smokin g prevention programs for our youth and provide treatment options for tobacco users who want to quit?

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	Total Respond.^	<$0.25-$0.49			$0.50-$1.00			>$1.00			No tax
	Total Respond.^	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)	N	%	C.I.(95%)
North Carolina	6,118	801	13.7	12.4-15.0	1,349	23.4	21.9-24.9	1,870	31.5	29.8-33.2	2,098	31.5	29.9-33.1
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	153	21	15.7	8.4-27.6	42	26.6	18.5-36.6	42	33.6	23.8-45.0	48	24.2	17.4-32.5
GENDER
Male	60	5	8.8	3.1-22.5	10	19.4	8.8-37.5	18	41.0	25.5-58.5	27	30.7	19.5-44.9
Female	93	16	22.6	10.7-41.4	32	33.7	23.1-46.2	24	26.1	16.5-38.7	21	17.6	10.7-27.6
RACE
White	134	16	13.7	6.3-27.5	38	27.4	18.4-38.6	35	31.4	21.0-44.2	45	27.5	19.5-37.2
Other	18	4	25.0	8.4-54.6	4	22.6	8.4-48.2	7	45.6	22.6-70.6	3	6.8	2.0-20.9
AGE
18-44	52	5	14.8	4.9-36.8	16	26.0	14.3-42.6	19	42.9	27.1-60.3	12	16.4	8.7-28.5
45+	100	16	17.1	9.6-28.5	25	26.6	18.1-37.4	23	21.9	14.3-32.0	36	34.4	24.9-45.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	66	9	23.2	10.1-44.8	13	21.1	9.9-39.2	16	30.5	16.9-48.6	28	25.3	15.5-38.4
Some College +	87	12	8.9	4.7-16.1	29	31.6	21.5-43.7	26	36.4	24.0-50.9	20	23.2	14.6-34.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	91	12	15.2	7.9-27.3	21	20.6	12.9-31.3	27	37.9	25.3-52.3	31	26.3	17.6-37.3
$50,000+	49	5	15.2	3.7-45.4	19	36.8	20.7-56.5	15	32.5	17.3-52.6	10	15.5	7.7-28.8

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^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.

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