BRFSS 2006 - Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 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: Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 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
-Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	171	23	14.5	9.3-22.0	30	18.1	12.5-25.5	40	25.8	18.2-35.3	78	41.6	33.4-50.2
GENDER
Male	75	10	13.0	6.4-24.8	14	16.9	9.7-27.9	14	25.2	14.1-40.9	37	44.8	32.5-57.9
Female	96	13	16.2	9.3-26.9	16	19.5	11.8-30.4	26	26.6	17.9-37.7	41	37.7	27.8-48.7
RACE
White	147	18	13.4	8.1-21.3	28	20.8	14.3-29.2	35	23.7	16.7-32.6	66	42.1	33.5-51.2
Other	22	4	18.8	6.0-45.8	2	5.7	1.2-22.9	4	34.1	11.5-67.3	12	41.4	19.8-67.0
AGE
18-44	57	10	18.4	9.8-31.9	11	17.6	9.6-30.1	16	33.5	20.6-49.6	20	30.4	19.5-44.1
45+	113	13	10.7	5.9-18.7	19	18.6	11.8-28.2	23	18.0	11.7-26.8	58	52.6	42.4-62.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	91	13	15.5	8.5-26.7	12	15.7	8.6-26.8	19	24.4	13.8-39.5	47	44.4	32.7-56.8
Some College +	80	10	13.4	6.8-24.7	18	20.8	13.0-31.7	21	27.4	17.8-39.7	31	38.4	27.5-50.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	102	16	17.7	10.3-28.7	15	14.8	8.7-24.2	23	22.4	14.3-33.4	48	45.0	34.4-56.1
$50,000+	48	6	10.8	4.5-23.6	12	24.0	13.4-39.3	12	30.8	16.3-50.5	18	34.3	21.3-50.2

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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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