BRFSS 2006 - Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender 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: Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender 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
-Blad./Bruns./Colum./Pender	170	25	13.5	8.7-20.3	36	25.1	17.8-34.3	48	25.6	19.0-33.5	61	35.8	27.8-44.6
GENDER
Male	61	9	13.2	6.3-25.5	10	26.4	14.6-42.9	21	29.2	18.7-42.5	21	31.2	20.1-45.0
Female	109	16	13.7	7.9-22.7	26	24.3	15.8-35.5	27	23.2	15.4-33.4	40	38.9	28.4-50.4
RACE
White	131	16	11.1	6.5-18.4	29	26.2	17.7-36.9	39	24.5	17.6-33.1	47	38.1	28.8-48.4
Other	39	9	21.0	9.9-39.2	7	21.8	9.7-41.7	9	28.9	14.9-48.5	14	28.3	16.0-45.0
AGE
18-44	42	4	8.1	2.8-21.2	13	35.1	20.0-53.9	13	23.8	12.8-39.9	12	33.0	18.6-51.5
45+	126	21	16.6	10.4-25.6	23	20.3	13.2-29.9	34	25.9	18.5-35.1	48	37.1	28.3-47.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	82	10	11.1	5.4-21.2	18	28.1	17.1-42.6	23	25.5	16.2-37.6	31	35.3	24.0-48.6
Some College +	88	15	16.0	9.2-26.4	18	22.0	13.5-33.8	25	25.7	17.2-36.6	30	36.3	25.8-48.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	106	17	16.2	9.7-25.9	22	23.0	14.6-34.5	25	20.4	13.2-30.2	42	40.3	29.9-51.7
$50,000+	41	5	9.4	3.4-23.7	14	40.4	24.3-59.0	15	28.6	16.6-44.5	7	21.6	10.3-39.7

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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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