BRFSS 2007 - Alamance County: (States add a special tax to cigarettes. The national average is $0.92 and the NC tax recently increased to $0.35.<br> How much additional tax on a pack of cigarettes, above the current 35 cents, would you be willing to support if a considerable portion<br > of the money raised was used to fund smoking prevention programs for our youth<br> and provide treatment options for tobacco users who want to quit?)

2007 BRFSS Survey Results: Alamance County

Tobacco Use Prevention

States add a special tax to cigarettes. The national average is $0.92 and the NC tax recently increased to $0.35.
How much additional tax on a pack of cigarettes, above the current 35 cents, would you be willing to support if a considerable portion
of the money raised was used to fund smoking prevention programs for our youth
and provide treatment options for tobacco users who want to quit?

View results for a demographic group:	Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:

	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	5,609	668	12.4	11.2-13.8	1,272	23.9	22.2-25.7	1,806	33.0	31.1-35.0	1,863	30.7	28.9-32.5
-Alamance County	139	20	14.4	7.8-25.0	41	30.2	19.8-43.1	29	15.1	9.6-23.1	49	40.3	27.1-55.1
GENDER
Male	51	6	12.4	3.9-33.5	9	17.0	7.0-35.7	12	14.2	6.7-27.5	24	56.4	34.9-75.8
Female	88	14	16.4	9.0-28.0	32	43.6	29.6-58.6	17	16.1	9.2-26.5	25	24.0	14.9-36.3
RACE
White	115	18	18.8	10.3-31.9	29	22.0	14.7-31.5	27	19.2	12.5-28.3	41	40.0	29.3-51.6
Other	23	2	4.9	0.9-22.1	12	48.4	18.7-79.2	2	6.4	1.4-25.1	7	40.3	11.9-77.0
AGE
18-44	46	7	14.0	5.1-33.1	15	29.3	14.5-50.3	9	11.4	5.1-23.6	15	45.4	24.4-68.1
45+	93	13	14.9	7.9-26.4	26	31.3	19.9-45.5	20	19.6	12.0-30.2	34	34.2	24.0-46.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	61	7	14.8	5.2-35.7	22	43.7	26.7-62.3	10	11.4	5.4-22.4	22	30.1	17.5-46.5
Some College +	78	13	14.0	6.9-26.3	19	19.1	10.5-32.2	19	18.1	9.9-30.9	27	48.7	29.8-68.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	82	12	9.8	5.1-17.9	24	37.7	23.1-54.9	13	12.6	6.4-23.2	33	40.0	26.7-54.9
$50,000+	47	5	14.5	5.9-31.4	12	24.7	13.8-40.2	15	26.3	15.3-41.2	15	34.6	21.0-51.4

Back to Tobacco Use Prevention.

^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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 06MAY08.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook