BRFSS 2006 - Buncombe 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: Buncombe 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
-Buncombe County	134	12	9.2	4.8-16.8	37	31.1	21.7-42.3	44	30.2	21.6-40.5	41	29.5	20.8-40.0
GENDER
Male	53	7	12.7	5.6-26.3	11	19.0	10.1-32.8	16	30.0	17.6-46.3	19	38.3	24.1-54.8
Female	81	5	5.8	2.1-14.6	26	43.0	28.9-58.3	28	30.5	19.7-43.9	22	20.8	12.9-31.7
RACE
White	123	11	9.3	4.7-17.5	34	31.6	21.7-43.5	41	31.0	22.0-41.7	37	28.2	19.6-38.6
Other	10	1	9.0	1.2-45.4	3	28.6	8.0-64.8	3	25.7	5.4-67.7	3	36.8	9.2-77.0
AGE
18-44	40	4	9.6	3.5-23.8	12	30.7	16.5-49.8	14	33.0	19.3-50.3	10	26.8	14.1-44.9
45+	94	8	8.8	4.2-17.4	25	31.6	21.7-43.5	30	27.2	18.7-37.6	31	32.5	23.0-43.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	46	6	10.5	3.9-25.3	10	27.2	12.2-50.2	11	21.8	10.4-40.2	19	40.5	23.4-60.3
Some College +	87	6	8.5	3.6-18.8	27	33.5	22.7-46.4	32	34.7	23.9-47.4	22	23.2	14.8-34.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	72	10	13.2	6.6-24.7	18	25.0	14.6-39.6	20	29.8	18.1-44.9	24	32.0	20.1-46.8
$50,000+	44	2	6.2	1.2-26.4	14	29.5	17.2-45.8	17	36.3	22.0-53.4	11	28.0	14.6-47.0

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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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