BRFSS 2006 - Mecklenburg 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: Mecklenburg 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
-Mecklenburg County	291	26	9.5	4.9-17.8	70	23.2	16.7-31.4	114	39.9	31.8-48.6	81	27.3	20.9-34.7
GENDER
Male	119	12	11.6	4.7-25.9	22	20.1	11.0-33.7	47	39.7	27.6-53.2	38	28.6	19.2-40.3
Female	172	14	6.5	3.7-11.1	48	27.9	21.0-36.1	67	40.3	32.3-48.8	43	25.3	18.9-33.1
RACE
White	205	19	12.9	6.0-25.6	56	23.8	17.5-31.4	87	45.0	35.7-54.6	43	18.3	13.1-25.1
Other	84	7	4.2	1.7- 9.9	13	22.3	10.3-41.9	26	31.4	17.9-48.8	38	42.1	27.9-57.8
AGE
18-44	119	9	10.2	3.7-25.2	32	25.0	15.3-38.2	48	40.0	28.0-53.4	30	24.7	16.0-36.3
45+	171	17	8.7	5.2-14.1	38	20.7	14.7-28.3	65	39.5	31.3-48.3	51	31.2	23.9-39.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	72	8	5.8	2.5-12.8	18	27.4	12.5-49.9	20	28.4	13.6-50.0	26	38.4	22.7-57.0
Some College +	219	18	11.1	5.1-22.7	52	21.5	15.8-28.5	94	44.8	36.0-53.9	55	22.6	16.8-29.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	113	11	5.7	2.9-11.0	32	34.3	20.6-51.2	34	28.0	16.2-43.8	36	32.0	20.3-46.5
$50,000+	138	10	12.2	4.6-28.9	34	20.6	14.1-28.9	62	44.1	34.0-54.6	32	23.1	16.0-32.3

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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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