BRFSS 2006 - Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln 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: Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln 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
-Alex./Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	207	35	17.3	11.6-25.0	50	31.1	22.8-40.8	52	22.7	16.1-31.1	70	28.9	22.0-36.9
GENDER
Male	71	16	18.6	10.2-31.5	17	31.7	18.1-49.3	15	22.0	11.1-38.9	23	27.7	16.8-42.1
Female	136	19	16.3	9.3-26.8	33	30.6	21.4-41.6	37	23.3	16.3-32.0	47	29.9	21.8-39.5
RACE
White	176	28	15.3	9.7-23.4	46	33.7	24.6-44.3	44	22.5	15.4-31.8	58	28.4	21.1-37.1
Other	31	7	29.5	12.6-54.7	4	14.3	4.0-40.3	8	23.9	10.4-46.0	12	32.3	15.9-54.7
AGE
18-44	67	12	17.1	8.7-31.0	23	41.7	27.7-57.3	17	20.6	10.9-35.6	15	20.5	11.6-33.8
45+	139	23	17.5	11.4-25.9	27	19.6	13.2-28.0	34	24.7	17.5-33.7	55	38.2	29.6-47.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	114	15	16.0	8.4-28.4	24	25.6	15.9-38.4	26	24.2	14.6-37.4	49	34.2	24.4-45.6
Some College +	93	20	18.9	11.6-29.2	26	37.8	25.1-52.4	26	20.9	13.4-31.1	21	22.4	13.6-34.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	129	24	18.6	11.5-28.5	26	29.0	18.2-42.8	30	20.0	13.2-29.3	49	32.4	23.4-43.0
$50,000+	48	6	10.5	4.5-22.6	17	37.8	23.6-54.3	15	24.1	13.8-38.6	10	27.7	14.5-46.2

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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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