BRFSS 2006 - Onslow 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: Onslow 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
-Onslow County	170	23	13.7	7.5-23.7	21	14.4	8.7-22.9	58	31.1	22.9-40.7	68	40.8	31.1-51.3
GENDER
Male	65	7	13.1	4.7-31.7	9	13.7	6.4-26.6	13	20.7	10.8-36.0	36	52.6	36.9-67.8
Female	105	16	14.5	8.3-24.0	12	15.4	7.9-27.9	45	44.3	33.4-55.6	32	25.9	17.7-36.2
RACE
White	137	17	14.0	7.1-25.9	16	14.9	8.5-24.9	46	28.7	20.0-39.3	58	42.4	31.4-54.2
Other	32	6	12.2	5.0-26.9	5	12.3	4.8-28.2	11	42.2	23.9-63.0	10	33.3	17.5-54.0
AGE
18-44	76	11	16.1	7.5-31.0	12	16.0	8.4-28.2	28	30.6	19.7-44.2	25	37.4	24.5-52.4
45+	94	12	9.0	5.0-15.9	9	11.5	5.4-22.6	30	31.9	22.3-43.4	43	47.6	36.4-59.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	65	11	20.4	8.5-41.5	3	7.9	2.2-24.6	18	30.1	17.0-47.4	33	41.6	27.0-57.8
Some College +	104	12	9.1	4.7-16.9	18	19.1	11.1-30.7	40	31.9	22.2-43.6	34	39.9	27.4-53.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	94	14	18.8	8.8-35.7	9	8.0	3.7-16.5	28	28.1	17.9-41.1	43	45.1	31.5-59.5
$50,000+	59	6	8.0	3.5-17.3	10	23.8	12.4-40.9	26	34.0	22.0-48.4	17	34.2	20.4-51.3

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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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