BRFSS 2006 - Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance 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: Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance 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
-Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	159	28	16.4	10.6-24.5	29	16.6	11.0-24.3	32	23.8	15.7-34.3	70	43.2	33.2-53.9
GENDER
Male	57	10	17.6	9.3-30.8	7	11.8	5.1-25.0	8	15.9	7.7-30.0	32	54.7	40.3-68.4
Female	102	18	15.6	8.5-26.9	22	19.7	12.1-30.5	24	29.0	17.4-44.0	38	35.7	22.6-51.4
RACE
White	115	24	18.3	11.5-27.6	21	15.9	9.6-25.1	23	24.7	14.7-38.4	47	41.2	28.9-54.8
Other	43	4	12.4	3.5-35.5	7	15.3	7.0-30.4	9	22.3	11.3-39.4	23	50.0	33.4-66.5
AGE
18-44	65	12	16.1	8.2-29.3	15	19.3	10.9-31.8	17	31.6	18.6-48.3	21	33.0	18.8-51.1
45+	94	16	16.8	9.9-26.9	14	13.1	7.3-22.3	15	13.6	8.0-22.2	49	56.6	45.2-67.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	81	17	21.5	12.4-34.6	7	8.3	3.5-18.5	18	26.3	15.6-40.9	39	43.9	31.8-56.9
Some College +	78	11	11.2	5.7-20.8	22	25.2	15.3-38.4	14	21.1	10.6-37.8	31	42.5	27.1-59.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	100	21	20.9	12.5-32.8	15	11.8	6.6-20.0	20	21.5	12.5-34.5	44	45.8	32.4-59.8
$50,000+	39	4	9.3	3.2-23.8	9	27.0	13.9-45.9	8	21.5	10.4-39.1	18	42.2	26.3-60.0

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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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