BRFSS 2006 - New Hanover 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: New Hanover 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
-New Hanover County	163	20	12.7	8.0-19.6	40	28.1	19.8-38.2	67	39.2	30.8-48.4	36	20.0	13.9-27.8
GENDER
Male	49	4	9.7	3.5-24.2	13	30.6	15.3-51.6	18	34.5	20.5-51.8	14	25.3	14.0-41.4
Female	114	16	14.6	8.9-23.1	27	26.5	18.5-36.5	49	42.3	32.8-52.5	22	16.6	10.6-25.0
RACE
White	146	20	13.9	8.7-21.4	36	28.7	19.8-39.5	63	39.4	30.5-49.0	27	18.1	12.0-26.4
Other	17	0	0.0	. - .	4	21.8	7.5-48.9	4	38.0	15.2-67.8	9	40.2	18.8-66.1
AGE
18-44	41	6	9.2	3.8-20.7	14	37.4	20.4-58.2	15	37.2	21.8-55.7	6	16.2	6.9-33.5
45+	118	14	15.4	9.0-25.0	24	21.8	14.8-30.8	51	41.5	32.2-51.4	29	21.4	14.7-30.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	46	5	14.1	5.5-31.4	13	36.1	18.1-59.0	16	28.5	15.5-46.4	12	21.3	10.3-39.0
Some College +	117	15	12.0	7.2-19.6	27	24.4	17.0-33.8	51	44.1	34.5-54.2	24	19.4	12.8-28.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	85	11	14.1	7.6-24.6	21	28.1	18.7-39.9	34	39.5	28.7-51.5	19	18.3	11.3-28.3
$50,000+	67	7	10.5	4.7-21.6	17	23.0	14.2-35.2	31	45.9	33.0-59.3	12	20.7	11.4-34.5

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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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