BRFSS 2006 - Catawba 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: Catawba 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
-Catawba County	176	24	11.9	6.6-20.6	35	16.0	10.6-23.6	54	41.2	29.9-53.5	63	30.9	21.7-41.9
GENDER
Male	56	6	6.3	2.5-15.0	11	15.1	6.9-30.0	19	39.4	23.2-58.3	20	39.2	22.1-59.4
Female	120	18	15.4	7.7-28.6	24	16.6	10.2-26.0	35	42.3	27.8-58.2	43	25.7	17.2-36.5
RACE
White	161	23	13.4	7.4-23.2	32	16.4	10.5-24.6	49	39.3	27.4-52.6	57	30.9	21.1-42.7
Other	15	1	1.6	0.2-11.2	3	13.6	3.7-39.2	5	53.9	23.7-81.5	6	30.9	10.4-63.3
AGE
18-44	56	6	11.2	3.9-28.0	10	13.0	6.2-25.4	25	51.2	32.9-69.2	15	24.7	11.9-44.2
45+	118	18	13.1	8.0-20.7	25	20.2	13.3-29.4	28	28.6	19.6-39.6	47	38.1	28.9-48.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	83	8	8.1	2.9-21.0	18	14.2	7.6-24.8	20	35.9	18.3-58.4	37	41.7	25.0-60.6
Some College +	93	16	15.6	7.7-28.8	17	17.8	10.3-29.2	34	46.2	33.7-59.2	26	20.4	13.1-30.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	106	15	12.8	5.6-26.6	21	13.1	7.5-21.8	23	36.0	20.4-55.2	47	38.1	24.3-54.2
$50,000+	50	7	11.3	5.2-23.0	9	19.7	9.5-36.4	22	48.1	33.1-63.5	12	20.8	11.2-35.4

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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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