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Total Respond.^ |
Everyday | Some days | Not at all | |||||||
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N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
North Carolina | 2,613 | 323 | 11.0 | 9.4-12.9 | 218 | 10.0 | 8.3-12.0 | 2,072 | 79.0 | 76.5-81.2 |
COUNTY/REGIONS | ||||||||||
Alamance | 59 | 6 | 8.1 | 3.5-17.8 | 6 | 10.6 | 4.3-23.7 | 47 | 81.3 | 67.7-90.0 |
Buncombe | 51 | 8 | 12.7 | 5.7-25.9 | 4 | 14.9 | 5.2-36.0 | 39 | 72.4 | 54.1-85.3 |
Cabarrus | 66 | 5 | 5.3 | 1.7-15.0 | 6 | 15.2 | 5.8-34.3 | 55 | 79.5 | 61.8-90.2 |
Catawba | 54 | 6 | 9.0 | 3.4-21.5 | 2 | 2.4 | 0.5-10.4 | 46 | 88.7 | 76.0-95.1 |
Cumberland | 67 | 8 | 12.7 | 5.6-26.3 | 6 | 7.1 | 2.8-17.0 | 53 | 80.2 | 66.2-89.3 |
Davidson | 90 | 11 | 13.8 | 7.1-25.0 | 8 | 7.8 | 3.1-18.1 | 71 | 78.5 | 66.3-87.1 |
Durham | 43 | 5 | 6.8 | 2.5-17.4 | 4 | 5.6 | 1.7-17.0 | 34 | 87.6 | 74.4-94.5 |
Forsyth | 67 | 7 | 6.1 | 2.7-13.4 | 5 | 4.5 | 1.6-12.1 | 55 | 89.3 | 80.4-94.5 |
Gaston | 61 | 10 | 13.9 | 6.9-26.0 | 7 | 12.6 | 4.8-29.3 | 44 | 73.6 | 57.7-85.0 |
Guilford | 61 | 6 | 9.4 | 4.0-20.5 | 3 | 5.6 | 1.5-18.6 | 52 | 85.0 | 72.0-92.6 |
Iredell | 75 | 14 | 15.9 | 8.6-27.5 | 8 | 10.7 | 4.7-22.6 | 53 | 73.5 | 59.8-83.7 |
Johnston | 89 | 10 | 11.4 | 5.6-21.9 | 6 | 12.7 | 4.1-33.5 | 73 | 75.9 | 59.2-87.2 |
Mecklenburg | 103 | 3 | 2.5 | 0.6- 9.8 | 5 | 4.8 | 1.8-12.2 | 95 | 92.7 | 84.5-96.7 |
New Hanover | 39 | 0 | 0.0 | . - . | 0 | 0.0 | . - . | 39 | 100 | . - . |
Onslow | 80 | 7 | 14.7 | 6.3-30.4 | 4 | 3.0 | 1.0- 8.2 | 69 | 82.4 | 67.4-91.3 |
Orange | 45 | 2 | 1.1 | 0.3- 4.8 | 2 | 2.5 | 0.5-11.0 | 41 | 96.4 | 88.7-98.9 |
Pitt | 58 | 6 | 10.0 | 4.2-22.0 | 3 | 3.9 | 1.2-11.8 | 49 | 86.0 | 74.0-93.0 |
Randolph | 74 | 14 | 30.8 | 13.8-55.4 | 3 | 8.8 | 2.3-28.3 | 57 | 60.3 | 39.0-78.4 |
Robeson | 101 | 12 | 10.0 | 5.2-18.2 | 13 | 9.2 | 4.9-16.6 | 76 | 80.8 | 71.1-87.9 |
Rowan | 69 | 9 | 7.5 | 3.2-16.4 | 2 | 3.9 | 1.0-14.5 | 58 | 88.6 | 77.9-94.5 |
Union | 63 | 9 | 9.7 | 4.5-19.9 | 4 | 4.5 | 1.5-12.9 | 50 | 85.8 | 74.6-92.5 |
Wake | 66 | 2 | 2.5 | 0.6-10.2 | 6 | 12.0 | 4.7-27.5 | 58 | 85.5 | 70.5-93.6 |
Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico | 68 | 6 | 7.8 | 3.2-17.8 | 5 | 12.1 | 4.7-27.7 | 57 | 80.1 | 64.8-89.9 |
Northeast Partnership II*** | 88 | 16 | 11.5 | 6.3-20.1 | 5 | 8.1 | 2.9-20.6 | 67 | 80.5 | 68.4-88.7 |
Northeast Partnership I*** | 70 | 9 | 8.4 | 3.9-17.1 | 14 | 23.2 | 12.9-37.9 | 47 | 68.5 | 54.1-80.0 |
Franklin/Nash/Wilson | 73 | 5 | 4.6 | 1.5-12.7 | 4 | 3.5 | 1.1-10.4 | 64 | 91.9 | 83.2-96.3 |
Duplin/Greene/Harn./Jones/Lenoir/Samp./Wayne | 89 | 9 | 7.1 | 3.2-14.7 | 10 | 12.8 | 4.7-30.3 | 70 | 80.1 | 64.9-89.8 |
Bladen/Brunswick/Columbus/Pender | 85 | 10 | 14.4 | 7.0-27.4 | 6 | 10.9 | 4.5-23.9 | 69 | 74.7 | 60.8-85.0 |
Caswell/Granville/Person/Vance | 74 | 9 | 12.0 | 5.7-23.6 | 2 | 2.8 | 0.7-10.6 | 63 | 85.2 | 73.4-92.3 |
Chatham/Lee/Moore | 69 | 10 | 17.4 | 8.5-32.2 | 6 | 19.8 | 8.0-41.1 | 53 | 62.8 | 45.5-77.4 |
Anson/Hoke/Montgo./Richmond/Scotland/Stanly | 128 | 23 | 17.7 | 11.1-27.0 | 18 | 13.0 | 7.4-22.1 | 87 | 69.3 | 58.5-78.3 |
Davie/Rockingham/Stokes/Surry/Yadkin | 97 | 13 | 10.6 | 5.7-18.9 | 12 | 11.9 | 5.9-22.5 | 72 | 77.5 | 66.2-85.8 |
Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes | 86 | 23 | 23.5 | 13.7-37.3 | 10 | 25.5 | 12.2-45.9 | 53 | 50.9 | 36.1-65.6 |
Alexander/Burke/Caldwell/Cleve./Lincoln | 90 | 16 | 15.7 | 8.6-26.9 | 10 | 14.2 | 6.3-28.9 | 64 | 70.2 | 56.0-81.3 |
Mountain AHEC (Excludes Buncombe) | 115 | 14 | 16.7 | 7.5-32.9 | 9 | 9.0 | 3.6-21.1 | 92 | 74.3 | 58.9-85.3 |
NORTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP*** | ||||||||||
Yes | 187 | 27 | 8.8 | 5.6-13.8 | 20 | 11.4 | 6.7-18.7 | 140 | 79.8 | 71.9-85.9 |
No | 2,426 | 296 | 11.2 | 9.5-13.1 | 198 | 9.9 | 8.1-12.0 | 1,932 | 78.9 | 76.3-81.3 |
NC REGIONS** | ||||||||||
Eastern NC | 927 | 101 | 9.7 | 7.6-12.4 | 82 | 10.1 | 7.3-13.8 | 744 | 80.2 | 76.2-83.6 |
Piedmont | 1,364 | 164 | 9.9 | 8.1-12.2 | 104 | 8.5 | 6.5-11.0 | 1,096 | 81.6 | 78.6-84.3 |
Western NC | 322 | 58 | 16.7 | 11.3-24.1 | 32 | 14.7 | 9.5-22.0 | 232 | 68.6 | 60.4-75.7 |
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS(AHEC) | ||||||||||
Mountain AHEC*** | 166 | 22 | 15.7 | 8.2-27.9 | 13 | 10.5 | 5.2-20.2 | 131 | 73.8 | 61.8-83.1 |
Northwest | 570 | 89 | 12.7 | 9.8-16.2 | 54 | 11.9 | 8.3-16.8 | 427 | 75.4 | 70.1-80.0 |
Charlotte | 365 | 44 | 9.5 | 6.2-14.2 | 30 | 8.4 | 5.0-14.0 | 291 | 82.1 | 75.8-87.0 |
Greensboro | 319 | 41 | 12.9 | 8.2-19.7 | 20 | 7.4 | 4.2-12.7 | 258 | 79.7 | 72.4-85.5 |
Southern Regional | 323 | 37 | 11.3 | 7.5-16.7 | 36 | 10.0 | 6.6-14.8 | 250 | 78.7 | 72.4-83.9 |
Coastal | 117 | 11 | 11.8 | 5.9-22.2 | 6 | 7.9 | 3.2-18.1 | 100 | 80.3 | 68.8-88.3 |
Wake | 298 | 29 | 7.0 | 4.5-10.8 | 20 | 9.8 | 5.3-17.4 | 249 | 83.2 | 75.9-88.7 |
Area L | 113 | 13 | 6.5 | 3.4-11.8 | 12 | 11.1 | 5.8-20.2 | 88 | 82.5 | 73.2-89.0 |
Eastern | 342 | 37 | 9.1 | 6.1-13.4 | 27 | 11.3 | 6.3-19.7 | 278 | 79.5 | 71.7-85.7 |
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*This question was asked only of respondents who reported ever using any smokeless tobacco products.
^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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