BRFSS 2006 - Chatham/Lee/Moore 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: Chatham/Lee/Moore 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
-Chatham/Lee/Moore	165	27	20.0	13.1-29.4	38	22.8	15.4-32.3	59	33.0	25.2-41.9	41	24.2	17.6-32.3
GENDER
Male	57	8	19.8	9.2-37.5	14	27.4	14.7-45.3	20	29.8	18.2-44.7	15	23.1	13.3-36.9
Female	108	19	20.2	12.6-30.9	24	19.0	12.3-28.2	39	35.6	26.0-46.6	26	25.1	17.0-35.5
RACE
White	144	24	21.5	13.8-31.9	34	23.8	15.7-34.3	51	31.5	23.4-40.9	35	23.3	16.4-31.8
Other	20	3	10.1	3.0-28.8	4	16.1	5.7-37.8	8	44.4	22.4-68.9	5	29.3	11.7-56.5
AGE
18-44	51	10	25.9	13.7-43.7	13	26.2	13.5-44.5	20	33.4	20.7-49.1	8	14.5	7.1-27.2
45+	112	17	15.6	9.2-25.2	25	20.3	13.3-29.7	39	32.9	23.9-43.5	31	31.1	22.1-41.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	60	10	24.0	12.0-42.3	11	20.3	8.8-40.1	18	24.1	13.9-38.4	21	31.6	19.6-46.7
Some College +	104	17	17.4	10.4-27.7	27	24.6	16.3-35.2	41	39.2	29.0-50.3	19	18.8	11.9-28.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	80	16	27.3	15.8-42.8	16	21.1	10.6-37.6	29	30.1	19.5-43.3	19	21.6	13.1-33.5
$50,000+	67	6	8.7	3.6-19.5	21	29.9	19.2-43.4	27	40.2	27.9-53.8	13	21.2	12.2-34.1

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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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