BRFSS 2006 - Guilford 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: Guilford 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
-Guilford County	169	21	11.5	7.1-18.0	36	21.4	14.8-29.7	52	28.7	21.4-37.2	60	38.5	29.4-48.5
GENDER
Male	70	7	9.0	3.9-19.1	16	23.6	14.1-36.9	18	25.6	15.7-38.8	29	41.8	28.1-56.9
Female	99	14	14.4	8.1-24.3	20	18.7	11.3-29.2	34	32.3	22.8-43.5	31	34.6	24.1-46.9
RACE
White	119	13	11.6	6.3-20.4	27	23.4	15.4-33.8	37	31.2	22.2-41.8	42	33.8	24.4-44.7
Other	50	8	11.2	5.1-23.0	9	17.9	8.7-33.4	15	24.5	13.9-39.5	18	46.4	29.4-64.1
AGE
18-44	59	10	14.8	7.5-26.9	10	16.6	8.6-29.6	23	38.9	26.4-53.1	16	29.7	17.8-45.2
45+	110	11	8.8	4.5-16.6	26	25.2	16.2-37.0	29	20.4	13.3-30.1	44	45.6	33.3-58.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	60	5	10.8	4.2-25.3	13	17.6	9.2-31.2	16	24.4	14.5-38.1	26	47.1	33.0-61.8
Some College +	109	16	11.8	6.8-19.7	23	23.3	14.9-34.4	36	30.9	21.5-42.2	34	34.0	22.7-47.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	79	10	10.8	5.3-20.6	16	26.0	15.2-40.8	25	28.5	18.6-41.1	28	34.7	23.2-48.2
$50,000+	65	9	13.4	6.5-25.8	16	19.8	11.4-32.1	16	24.6	14.5-38.6	24	42.2	27.4-58.5

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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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