BRFSS 2006 - Robeson 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: Robeson 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
-Robeson County	147	25	16.6	10.0-26.4	27	25.4	14.7-40.3	40	28.9	20.3-39.4	55	29.1	20.8-39.0
GENDER
Male	57	10	19.4	8.8-37.4	7	13.9	6.1-28.6	18	32.4	19.7-48.4	22	34.3	21.4-50.1
Female	90	15	14.3	7.7-25.0	20	35.0	18.6-55.9	22	26.0	15.6-40.1	33	24.7	15.6-36.8
RACE
White	61	11	14.0	6.6-27.5	11	32.3	12.8-60.8	13	22.2	11.6-38.5	26	31.4	18.1-48.7
Other	86	14	18.3	9.5-32.5	16	20.9	11.8-34.2	27	33.3	22.1-46.8	29	27.5	17.7-40.1
AGE
18-44	46	10	18.6	8.1-37.3	11	36.1	17.6-60.0	16	30.1	16.5-48.5	9	15.1	6.3-32.0
45+	101	15	14.6	8.7-23.7	16	14.6	8.8-23.3	24	27.7	18.8-38.8	46	43.1	33.0-53.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	81	12	15.4	6.9-30.8	13	25.0	10.5-48.6	26	32.9	20.4-48.4	30	26.7	16.2-40.7
Some College +	66	13	18.5	10.3-31.0	14	26.0	14.4-42.4	14	22.9	13.3-36.5	25	32.6	21.4-46.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	108	17	16.6	8.7-29.3	20	27.5	14.3-46.3	27	24.9	15.7-37.1	44	31.1	20.9-43.6
$50,000+	24	6	22.7	9.7-44.4	6	19.8	8.4-39.7	7	37.2	19.1-59.9	5	20.3	7.9-43.1

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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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