BRFSS 2006 - Rowan 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: Rowan 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
-Rowan County	184	26	14.3	9.2-21.5	47	28.8	21.0-38.0	44	25.4	17.8-34.8	67	31.6	24.3-39.8
GENDER
Male	73	13	14.2	7.7-24.8	20	34.7	22.0-50.0	14	21.5	10.9-38.0	26	29.6	19.2-42.7
Female	111	13	14.3	7.5-25.4	27	23.1	15.4-33.1	30	29.2	19.9-40.6	41	33.4	24.2-44.1
RACE
White	149	23	16.9	10.7-25.7	35	26.4	18.1-36.9	35	23.5	16.1-32.8	56	33.2	25.0-42.5
Other	34	3	5.3	1.6-16.1	12	37.3	19.9-58.6	8	31.1	13.0-57.8	11	26.3	13.4-45.2
AGE
18-44	59	11	16.8	8.5-30.5	23	38.5	24.6-54.5	16	32.7	19.2-49.9	9	12.0	5.5-24.2
45+	125	15	12.1	7.1-19.7	24	20.2	13.3-29.5	28	18.9	13.0-26.8	58	48.8	39.2-58.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	97	11	13.3	6.6-25.2	19	24.9	14.6-39.2	20	22.6	12.4-37.6	47	39.2	28.1-51.5
Some College +	87	15	15.3	8.9-25.0	28	33.1	22.7-45.6	24	28.6	18.7-41.1	20	23.0	14.2-34.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	113	17	14.9	8.9-23.9	29	30.5	20.0-43.4	24	25.7	15.5-39.4	43	29.0	20.5-39.2
$50,000+	56	7	9.8	4.4-20.6	17	30.4	18.9-45.1	17	27.3	16.4-41.8	15	32.4	19.9-48.0

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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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