BRFSS 2006 - Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico 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: Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico 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
-Cart./Curr./Crav./Dare/Hyde/Paml.	169	20	12.0	7.1-19.6	42	32.7	23.6-43.2	54	27.8	20.3-36.8	53	27.6	20.5-36.0
GENDER
Male	64	8	13.0	5.8-26.7	17	29.4	18.2-43.9	14	23.8	12.8-39.8	25	33.8	22.3-47.6
Female	105	12	11.1	5.5-21.0	25	35.4	22.7-50.5	40	31.2	21.9-42.4	28	22.3	14.6-32.6
RACE
White	163	20	12.3	7.3-20.2	41	32.8	23.6-43.6	51	26.8	19.4-35.9	51	28.0	20.7-36.6
Other	4	0	0.0	. - .	0	0.0	. - .	2	65.6	19.6-93.7	2	34.4	6.3-80.4
AGE
18-44	52	7	13.2	5.7-27.7	17	43.5	28.1-60.2	14	21.6	11.3-37.4	14	21.7	12.2-35.5
45+	117	13	10.7	6.0-18.3	25	21.4	14.5-30.5	40	34.2	25.5-44.2	39	33.7	24.9-43.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	80	10	10.5	4.5-22.4	16	32.1	18.9-49.0	21	23.6	13.4-38.1	33	33.9	22.8-47.0
Some College +	88	10	13.6	6.9-25.2	26	33.4	22.5-46.5	33	32.5	22.7-44.1	19	20.5	12.3-32.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	101	15	14.3	7.9-24.6	26	35.5	23.4-49.7	26	21.0	13.6-31.0	34	29.2	20.1-40.3
$50,000+	42	4	8.2	3.0-20.7	12	32.2	18.5-49.9	17	35.0	21.5-51.3	9	24.6	12.5-42.7

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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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