BRFSS 2006 - Union 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: Union 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
-Union County	164	12	5.4	2.8-10.2	47	26.1	18.9-34.8	58	38.3	29.3-48.1	47	30.3	22.3-39.7
GENDER
Male	57	4	4.8	1.6-13.7	14	21.8	12.3-35.8	21	39.8	25.9-55.6	18	33.6	21.1-48.9
Female	107	8	6.1	2.8-12.6	33	31.0	21.9-41.9	37	36.5	27.0-47.1	29	26.5	18.2-36.8
RACE
White	143	11	5.9	2.9-11.5	40	26.1	18.6-35.4	50	36.8	27.6-47.2	42	31.1	22.6-41.2
Other	21	1	2.7	0.4-17.8	7	25.9	9.7-53.3	8	45.6	21.5-71.9	5	25.7	9.1-54.4
AGE
18-44	60	5	5.9	2.1-15.2	15	24.1	14.1-38.2	25	41.9	28.0-57.2	15	28.1	16.7-43.4
45+	104	7	4.9	2.2-10.3	32	28.2	19.3-39.2	33	34.3	24.4-45.9	32	32.6	22.8-44.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	69	5	7.2	2.6-18.3	21	30.1	18.3-45.4	18	28.0	16.1-44.1	25	34.7	22.5-49.3
Some College +	95	7	4.2	1.8- 9.6	26	23.5	15.3-34.3	40	44.9	33.0-57.3	22	27.4	17.5-40.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	78	6	7.8	3.1-17.9	24	34.0	21.8-48.7	22	26.5	15.6-41.3	26	31.8	19.9-46.5
$50,000+	69	5	3.4	1.3- 8.4	17	17.9	10.7-28.3	29	48.2	34.8-61.9	18	30.5	19.5-44.3

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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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