BRFSS 2006 - North Carolina Counties and Regions: (About how long has it been since you last smoked cigarettes regularly?*)

2006 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

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	Total Respond.^	Less than 6 mos.	6 mos. to 1 year	Past year	Past 5 years	Past 10 years
North Carolina	4,159	202	7.1	5.9- 8.6	117	3.7	2.8- 4.9	575	17.0	15.3-18.8	446	12.5	11.0-14.1	2,819	59.7	57.5-61.8
COUNTY/REGIONS
Alamance	96	3	4.2	1.1-15.2	1	1.3	0.2- 8.5	11	21.3	10.8-37.6	14	12.8	7.1-22.0	67	60.4	46.7-72.7
Buncombe	106	5	9.5	3.9-21.4	2	1.6	0.4- 6.4	17	22.2	13.6-34.0	9	9.8	4.8-19.1	73	56.9	45.2-67.8
Cabarrus	91	6	10.5	4.4-22.9	4	3.8	1.3-10.8	13	15.0	8.3-25.6	6	5.0	2.1-11.4	62	65.6	53.5-76.0
Catawba	95	5	10.3	2.7-32.5	0	0.0	. - .	11	12.9	6.5-23.9	8	6.7	3.0-14.2	71	70.1	54.9-81.9
Cumberland	104	5	7.3	2.9-17.5	4	4.2	1.5-11.1	22	23.8	15.2-35.3	11	9.1	4.4-17.9	62	55.6	44.1-66.5
Davidson	130	14	8.7	4.7-15.6	4	4.3	1.3-13.4	21	24.9	13.8-40.8	9	8.1	4.0-15.8	82	53.9	41.5-65.9
Durham	109	8	10.7	4.9-21.8	4	10.8	2.7-34.9	11	11.0	5.3-21.5	13	17.9	9.5-31.3	73	49.5	36.7-62.4
Forsyth	105	4	7.0	2.1-20.9	5	7.8	2.8-20.1	10	11.9	5.9-22.5	7	7.9	3.4-17.1	79	65.5	52.8-76.3
Gaston	108	5	7.5	2.7-19.3	2	2.0	0.5- 7.8	13	14.2	7.7-24.6	12	12.6	6.6-22.7	76	63.7	51.9-74.0
Guilford	118	4	4.8	1.6-13.4	4	3.2	1.0- 9.4	18	19.7	12.2-30.2	10	7.6	4.1-14.0	82	64.6	53.9-74.1
Iredell	124	5	3.8	1.4- 9.4	3	5.8	1.6-18.5	18	14.9	9.0-23.7	15	11.5	6.6-19.3	83	64.0	53.4-73.4
Johnston	118	3	1.6	0.4- 5.6	6	6.5	2.5-16.3	22	18.9	12.0-28.4	13	11.7	6.5-20.2	74	61.3	50.0-71.6
Mecklenburg	226	9	5.5	2.5-11.7	7	4.5	2.0- 9.8	32	19.0	12.5-27.7	25	12.6	8.2-19.1	153	58.3	49.9-66.3
New Hanover	137	5	5.0	1.8-13.0	5	2.0	0.8- 4.9	13	11.5	6.4-19.8	12	13.0	6.6-24.1	102	68.5	57.7-77.6
Onslow	99	9	19.6	9.2-37.1	2	0.9	0.2- 3.6	19	20.0	11.8-31.8	8	11.2	5.5-21.2	61	48.4	36.1-60.9
Orange	110	6	7.3	2.8-17.7	1	1.5	0.2- 9.9	15	17.2	9.7-28.6	10	8.2	3.8-16.8	78	65.9	54.1-76.0
Pitt	91	4	5.0	1.8-13.1	4	4.2	1.5-10.9	13	18.2	9.7-31.4	9	7.6	3.8-14.7	61	65.0	52.7-75.6
Randolph	110	4	4.1	1.4-11.2	3	1.5	0.4- 5.2	13	19.4	7.2-42.7	22	25.3	13.2-43.1	68	49.7	34.1-65.4
Robeson	97	6	11.9	3.4-34.3	4	5.6	2.0-14.6	14	16.7	8.9-29.0	13	12.1	6.6-20.9	60	53.8	40.2-66.8
Rowan	103	3	5.3	1.6-16.2	5	5.5	2.0-14.3	22	22.7	13.9-34.9	12	11.9	6.3-21.4	61	54.5	42.9-65.7
Union	93	7	7.3	3.0-16.9	0	0.0	. - .	7	8.1	3.7-16.8	7	18.3	7.0-40.2	72	66.3	49.6-79.7
Wake	167	9	6.8	3.2-13.9	1	2.8	0.4-16.9	20	15.3	9.6-23.4	15	13.5	7.8-22.2	122	61.7	52.0-70.5
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico	131	4	4.3	1.4-12.2	1	0.3	0.0- 2.1	19	14.9	9.1-23.3	12	11.4	6.2-20.2	95	69.2	59.0-77.8
Northeast Partnership II***	139	7	11.8	4.1-29.7	4	3.8	1.2-11.2	22	15.6	8.5-27.1	8	4.3	1.8- 9.6	98	64.5	51.0-76.0
Northeast Partnership I***	128	5	6.9	2.5-17.7	8	5.8	2.5-12.7	17	17.5	10.5-27.8	17	13.0	7.6-21.3	81	56.8	46.1-66.9
Franklin/Nash/Wilson	130	5	2.4	0.9- 6.0	1	1.1	0.2- 7.4	18	17.9	10.6-28.7	21	26.7	16.3-40.6	85	51.9	40.4-63.3
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne	125	7	11.0	4.1-26.5	5	6.0	2.2-15.6	18	15.3	9.1-24.7	19	15.5	8.8-25.8	76	52.2	40.8-63.3
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender	125	7	7.8	3.1-18.0	0	0.0	. - .	14	13.8	7.9-23.0	14	10.8	6.0-18.6	90	67.7	57.1-76.7
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance	82	6	25.7	10.4-50.6	5	4.4	1.6-11.2	14	15.8	8.4-27.7	12	9.9	5.0-18.6	45	44.3	29.8-59.9
Chatham/Lee/Moore	127	6	5.1	2.1-11.5	5	4.9	1.8-12.5	9	8.0	3.6-16.9	13	17.8	9.7-30.4	94	64.2	52.7-74.3
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly	133	3	3.0	0.7-11.8	4	3.3	1.1- 9.2	17	13.8	8.3-22.1	13	8.6	4.5-16.1	96	71.3	61.3-79.6
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin	114	6	6.7	2.4-17.3	3	3.6	1.0-12.3	18	19.7	11.9-31.0	18	17.4	10.5-27.2	69	52.6	41.7-63.2
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes	104	8	17.1	6.6-37.6	1	0.3	0.0- 2.5	13	19.1	10.1-33.2	14	11.1	6.2-19.2	68	52.4	38.6-65.8
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln	111	4	4.3	1.6-11.1	3	8.9	2.5-26.9	18	20.8	12.8-31.8	9	9.6	3.9-21.5	77	56.5	44.1-68.0
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)	173	5	2.6	1.0- 6.7	6	2.3	0.7- 6.7	23	16.9	9.8-27.6	16	13.2	6.8-24.0	123	65.0	54.1-74.6
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP***
Yes	302	13	8.8	4.0-18.2	13	4.2	2.1- 8.0	47	17.5	12.2-24.3	29	8.6	5.7-12.8	200	61.0	53.0-68.5
No	3,857	189	7.0	5.8- 8.5	104	3.7	2.7- 5.0	528	16.9	15.2-18.8	417	12.7	11.2-14.4	2,619	59.6	57.3-61.8
NC REGIONS**
Eastern NC	1,421	67	8.1	5.7-11.3	44	3.3	2.2- 5.0	208	16.4	14.0-19.2	148	11.5	9.3-14.1	954	60.7	57.0-64.2
Piedmont	2,288	115	6.9	5.4- 8.8	63	4.3	2.9- 6.2	301	16.5	14.3-19.0	250	13.1	11.2-15.3	1,559	59.2	56.3-62.1
Western NC	450	20	6.2	3.6-10.7	10	2.5	1.0- 6.5	66	19.8	14.9-25.8	48	12.0	8.1-17.4	306	59.5	53.0-65.6
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)
Mountain AHEC***	279	10	4.6	2.3- 8.8	8	2.1	0.8- 5.1	40	18.4	12.5-26.4	25	12.2	7.2-20.0	196	62.7	54.4-70.3
Northwest	793	46	8.5	5.6-12.7	22	4.9	2.8- 8.5	115	18.1	14.3-22.6	87	11.1	8.6-14.1	523	57.5	52.5-62.3
Charlotte	619	30	5.8	3.6- 9.1	16	4.5	2.2- 8.9	80	17.0	12.9-22.1	59	12.1	8.8-16.6	434	60.6	54.9-66.0
Greensboro	540	22	5.8	3.1-10.7	12	2.2	1.1- 4.3	71	18.8	13.9-24.9	65	12.6	9.0-17.4	370	60.6	54.3-66.6
Southern Regional	400	18	7.4	4.2-12.7	16	5.7	3.0-10.5	63	19.0	14.3-24.7	43	9.9	6.8-14.3	260	58.0	51.6-64.2
Coastal	260	13	7.3	3.8-13.5	5	0.8	0.3- 2.0	27	14.9	9.7-22.3	26	11.6	7.5-17.6	189	65.4	57.5-72.5
Wake	543	27	7.6	4.8-11.9	18	4.9	2.1-11.1	74	14.7	11.1-19.3	68	16.6	12.3-22.0	356	56.2	50.2-62.0
Area L	191	7	2.7	1.3- 5.8	4	1.6	0.5- 5.3	25	16.8	10.8-25.3	19	13.7	7.6-23.6	136	65.1	55.4-73.7
Eastern	534	29	11.0	6.3-18.3	16	3.2	1.7- 6.0	80	14.7	11.1-19.1	54	11.5	8.0-16.2	355	59.7	53.2-65.8

Total
Respond.^

Less than 6 mos.

6 mos. to 1 year

Past year

Past 5 years

Past 10 years

C.I.(95%)

North Carolina

4,159

202

7.1

5.9- 8.6

117

3.7

2.8- 4.9

575

17.0

15.3-18.8

446

12.5

11.0-14.1

2,819

59.7

57.5-61.8

COUNTY/REGIONS

Alamance

4.2

1.1-15.2

1.3

0.2- 8.5

21.3

10.8-37.6

12.8

7.1-22.0

60.4

46.7-72.7

Buncombe

106

9.5

3.9-21.4

1.6

0.4- 6.4

22.2

13.6-34.0

9.8

4.8-19.1

56.9

45.2-67.8

Cabarrus

10.5

4.4-22.9

3.8

1.3-10.8

15.0

8.3-25.6

5.0

2.1-11.4

65.6

53.5-76.0

Catawba

10.3

2.7-32.5

0.0

. - .

12.9

6.5-23.9

6.7

3.0-14.2

70.1

54.9-81.9

Cumberland

104

7.3

2.9-17.5

4.2

1.5-11.1

23.8

15.2-35.3

9.1

4.4-17.9

55.6

44.1-66.5

Davidson

130

8.7

4.7-15.6

4.3

1.3-13.4

24.9

13.8-40.8

8.1

4.0-15.8

53.9

41.5-65.9

Durham

109

10.7

4.9-21.8

10.8

2.7-34.9

11.0

5.3-21.5

17.9

9.5-31.3

49.5

36.7-62.4

Forsyth

105

7.0

2.1-20.9

7.8

2.8-20.1

11.9

5.9-22.5

7.9

3.4-17.1

65.5

52.8-76.3

Gaston

108

7.5

2.7-19.3

2.0

0.5- 7.8

14.2

7.7-24.6

12.6

6.6-22.7

63.7

51.9-74.0

Guilford

118

4.8

1.6-13.4

3.2

1.0- 9.4

19.7

12.2-30.2

7.6

4.1-14.0

64.6

53.9-74.1

Iredell

124

3.8

1.4- 9.4

5.8

1.6-18.5

14.9

9.0-23.7

11.5

6.6-19.3

64.0

53.4-73.4

Johnston

118

1.6

0.4- 5.6

6.5

2.5-16.3

18.9

12.0-28.4

11.7

6.5-20.2

61.3

50.0-71.6

Mecklenburg

226

5.5

2.5-11.7

4.5

2.0- 9.8

19.0

12.5-27.7

12.6

8.2-19.1

153

58.3

49.9-66.3

New Hanover

137

5.0

1.8-13.0

2.0

0.8- 4.9

11.5

6.4-19.8

13.0

6.6-24.1

102

68.5

57.7-77.6

Onslow

19.6

9.2-37.1

0.9

0.2- 3.6

20.0

11.8-31.8

11.2

5.5-21.2

48.4

36.1-60.9

Orange

110

7.3

2.8-17.7

1.5

0.2- 9.9

17.2

9.7-28.6

8.2

3.8-16.8

65.9

54.1-76.0

Pitt

5.0

1.8-13.1

4.2

1.5-10.9

18.2

9.7-31.4

7.6

3.8-14.7

65.0

52.7-75.6

Randolph

110

4.1

1.4-11.2

1.5

0.4- 5.2

19.4

7.2-42.7

25.3

13.2-43.1

49.7

34.1-65.4

Robeson

11.9

3.4-34.3

5.6

2.0-14.6

16.7

8.9-29.0

12.1

6.6-20.9

53.8

40.2-66.8

Rowan

103

5.3

1.6-16.2

5.5

2.0-14.3

22.7

13.9-34.9

11.9

6.3-21.4

54.5

42.9-65.7

Union

7.3

3.0-16.9

0.0

. - .

8.1

3.7-16.8

18.3

7.0-40.2

66.3

49.6-79.7

Wake

167

6.8

3.2-13.9

2.8

0.4-16.9

15.3

9.6-23.4

13.5

7.8-22.2

122

61.7

52.0-70.5

Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico

131

4.3

1.4-12.2

0.3

0.0- 2.1

14.9

9.1-23.3

11.4

6.2-20.2

69.2

59.0-77.8

Northeast Partnership II***

139

11.8

4.1-29.7

3.8

1.2-11.2

15.6

8.5-27.1

4.3

1.8- 9.6

64.5

51.0-76.0

Northeast Partnership I***

128

6.9

2.5-17.7

5.8

2.5-12.7

17.5

10.5-27.8

13.0

7.6-21.3

56.8

46.1-66.9

Franklin/Nash/Wilson

130

2.4

0.9- 6.0

1.1

0.2- 7.4

17.9

10.6-28.7

26.7

16.3-40.6

51.9

40.4-63.3

Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne

125

11.0

4.1-26.5

6.0

2.2-15.6

15.3

9.1-24.7

15.5

8.8-25.8

52.2

40.8-63.3

Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender

125

7.8

3.1-18.0

0.0

. - .

13.8

7.9-23.0

10.8

6.0-18.6

67.7

57.1-76.7

Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance

25.7

10.4-50.6

4.4

1.6-11.2

15.8

8.4-27.7

9.9

5.0-18.6

44.3

29.8-59.9

Chatham/Lee/Moore

127

5.1

2.1-11.5

4.9

1.8-12.5

8.0

3.6-16.9

17.8

9.7-30.4

64.2

52.7-74.3

Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly

133

3.0

0.7-11.8

3.3

1.1- 9.2

13.8

8.3-22.1

8.6

4.5-16.1

71.3

61.3-79.6

Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin

114

6.7

2.4-17.3

3.6

1.0-12.3

19.7

11.9-31.0

17.4

10.5-27.2

52.6

41.7-63.2

Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes

104

17.1

6.6-37.6

0.3

0.0- 2.5

19.1

10.1-33.2

11.1

6.2-19.2

52.4

38.6-65.8

Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln

111

4.3

1.6-11.1

8.9

2.5-26.9

20.8

12.8-31.8

9.6

3.9-21.5

56.5

44.1-68.0

Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe)

173

2.6

1.0- 6.7

2.3

0.7- 6.7

16.9

9.8-27.6

13.2

6.8-24.0

123

65.0

54.1-74.6

NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP***

Yes

302

8.8

4.0-18.2

4.2

2.1- 8.0

17.5

12.2-24.3

8.6

5.7-12.8

200

61.0

53.0-68.5

3,857

189

7.0

5.8- 8.5

104

3.7

2.7- 5.0

528

16.9

15.2-18.8

417

12.7

11.2-14.4

2,619

59.6

57.3-61.8

NC REGIONS**

Eastern NC

1,421

8.1

5.7-11.3

3.3

2.2- 5.0

208

16.4

14.0-19.2

148

11.5

9.3-14.1

954

60.7

57.0-64.2

Piedmont

2,288

115

6.9

5.4- 8.8

4.3

2.9- 6.2

301

16.5

14.3-19.0

250

13.1

11.2-15.3

1,559

59.2

56.3-62.1

Western NC

450

6.2

3.6-10.7

2.5

1.0- 6.5

19.8

14.9-25.8

12.0

8.1-17.4

306

59.5

53.0-65.6

AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC)

Mountain AHEC***

279

4.6

2.3- 8.8

2.1

0.8- 5.1

18.4

12.5-26.4

12.2

7.2-20.0

196

62.7

54.4-70.3

Northwest

793

8.5

5.6-12.7

4.9

2.8- 8.5

115

18.1

14.3-22.6

11.1

8.6-14.1

523

57.5

52.5-62.3

Charlotte

619

5.8

3.6- 9.1

4.5

2.2- 8.9

17.0

12.9-22.1

12.1

8.8-16.6

434

60.6

54.9-66.0

Greensboro

540

5.8

3.1-10.7

2.2

1.1- 4.3

18.8

13.9-24.9

12.6

9.0-17.4

370

60.6

54.3-66.6

Southern Regional

400

7.4

4.2-12.7

5.7

3.0-10.5

19.0

14.3-24.7

9.9

6.8-14.3

260

58.0

51.6-64.2

Coastal

260

7.3

3.8-13.5

0.8

0.3- 2.0

14.9

9.7-22.3

11.6

7.5-17.6

189

65.4

57.5-72.5

Wake

543

7.6

4.8-11.9

4.9

2.1-11.1

14.7

11.1-19.3

16.6

12.3-22.0

356

56.2

50.2-62.0

Area L

191

2.7

1.3- 5.8

1.6

0.5- 5.3

16.8

10.8-25.3

13.7

7.6-23.6

136

65.1

55.4-73.7

Eastern

534

11.0

6.3-18.3

3.2

1.7- 6.0

14.7

11.1-19.1

11.5

8.0-16.2

355

59.7

53.2-65.8

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* Asked only of respondents who reported smoking 100 cigarettes in their entire lifetime and now smoke not at all (for any length of time).

^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.

**Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

***Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Edgecombe, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

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