BRFSS 2006 - Alamance County: (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: Alamance County

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
-Alamance County	171	24	22.2	12.9-35.3	46	27.1	19.1-37.0	40	23.5	15.4-34.1	61	27.2	20.1-35.7
GENDER
Male	69	12	30.2	15.9-49.8	16	22.8	12.7-37.4	15	21.6	10.5-39.2	26	25.4	15.8-38.1
Female	102	12	10.9	5.8-19.6	30	33.1	22.5-45.8	25	26.1	17.2-37.6	35	29.9	21.0-40.5
RACE
White	131	21	23.9	13.6-38.5	30	21.9	14.1-32.2	30	23.4	14.1-36.3	50	30.8	22.1-41.2
Other	40	3	16.8	3.2-55.0	16	43.2	23.5-65.4	10	23.8	10.9-44.3	11	16.2	7.7-30.8
AGE
18-44	56	10	29.0	14.0-50.7	16	27.2	15.1-44.0	15	25.8	13.1-44.6	15	17.9	9.9-30.3
45+	114	14	14.4	8.2-24.1	30	27.1	18.6-37.7	25	20.9	13.8-30.5	45	37.6	28.2-47.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	85	11	26.8	12.7-48.0	22	27.5	15.8-43.5	17	15.5	8.6-26.3	35	30.1	19.6-43.2
Some College +	85	13	17.7	8.4-33.7	23	26.0	16.3-38.6	23	31.7	18.6-48.4	26	24.6	15.7-36.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	109	16	20.0	10.2-35.7	33	31.0	20.3-44.2	24	24.5	13.3-40.6	36	24.5	16.3-35.1
$50,000+	42	5	12.3	5.1-26.8	9	22.7	11.2-40.4	13	31.4	18.4-48.2	15	33.7	20.3-50.2

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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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