BRFSS 2006 - Gaston 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: Gaston 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
-Gaston County	146	17	9.9	5.8-16.6	32	28.2	18.5-40.4	49	32.1	23.4-42.2	48	29.8	20.9-40.6
GENDER
Male	60	4	4.3	1.3-13.3	13	32.2	17.2-52.1	23	31.1	18.7-46.9	20	32.4	18.6-50.0
Female	86	13	16.2	9.0-27.4	19	23.7	14.3-36.6	26	33.2	22.6-45.9	28	26.9	17.4-39.2
RACE
White	124	14	9.7	5.3-17.0	28	28.1	17.5-41.9	41	32.4	22.8-43.7	41	29.9	20.2-41.8
Other	21	2	9.4	2.2-32.8	4	29.0	10.6-58.4	8	31.6	14.5-55.8	7	30.0	11.8-57.8
AGE
18-44	50	8	9.8	4.4-20.2	14	35.0	20.0-53.8	15	27.4	15.8-43.3	13	27.8	15.1-45.4
45+	95	9	10.3	4.9-20.3	18	19.2	11.9-29.5	33	37.8	27.5-49.3	35	32.7	22.9-44.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	69	11	13.5	7.0-24.6	13	28.4	15.3-46.6	20	26.4	16.2-39.9	25	31.7	19.3-47.3
Some College +	76	6	6.9	2.6-17.0	19	28.0	15.4-45.4	28	36.8	24.1-51.8	23	28.2	16.6-43.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	87	13	13.3	6.9-24.0	18	27.1	15.2-43.6	27	31.6	20.1-45.9	29	28.0	16.6-43.1
$50,000+	43	3	7.3	2.3-20.7	10	21.0	11.2-35.9	18	44.9	29.7-61.1	12	26.8	14.8-43.7

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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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