BRFSS 2006 - Franklin/Nash/Wilson 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: Franklin/Nash/Wilson 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
-Franklin/Nash/Wilson	160	24	14.9	9.6-22.6	24	16.6	10.5-25.2	49	31.4	23.0-41.1	63	37.1	28.4-46.8
GENDER
Male	59	9	16.8	8.6-30.3	12	21.1	11.7-35.2	15	24.2	14.0-38.5	23	37.9	24.6-53.4
Female	101	15	13.3	7.4-22.7	12	12.5	6.0-24.3	34	37.8	26.1-51.1	40	36.4	25.8-48.6
RACE
White	111	20	16.9	10.2-26.5	18	19.9	11.8-31.5	31	25.4	16.8-36.6	42	37.8	27.1-49.9
Other	48	3	8.4	2.6-23.9	6	10.2	4.1-23.3	18	44.6	28.4-62.0	21	36.8	22.8-53.4
AGE
18-44	59	8	11.3	5.4-22.3	9	17.1	8.4-31.7	20	33.8	21.1-49.3	22	37.8	24.4-53.3
45+	101	16	19.1	11.1-30.8	15	16.0	9.3-26.1	29	28.6	19.4-40.0	41	36.4	26.7-47.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	84	12	12.7	6.5-23.1	11	10.5	5.5-19.0	23	30.4	19.4-44.2	38	46.5	33.6-59.9
Some College +	76	12	17.6	9.5-30.2	13	23.7	13.1-38.9	26	32.5	20.9-46.8	25	26.2	16.8-38.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	87	9	11.0	5.4-21.4	15	16.9	9.2-29.1	21	26.7	16.3-40.5	42	45.4	32.6-58.8
$50,000+	53	12	22.8	12.3-38.3	8	21.4	10.5-38.6	18	29.1	17.8-43.8	15	26.7	15.8-41.3

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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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