BRFSS 2007 - Buncombe 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: Buncombe 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?

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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	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
-Buncombe County	146	22	23.9	14.2-37.2	42	28.2	19.2-39.5	38	23.4	16.0-32.9	44	24.5	17.0-33.8
GENDER
Male	66	11	28.9	15.3-47.7	19	28.1	16.0-44.6	20	23.5	13.9-36.9	16	19.5	10.7-32.7
Female	80	11	14.7	7.9-25.6	23	28.4	18.4-41.0	18	23.3	13.8-36.5	28	33.6	23.1-46.1
RACE
White	130	21	26.5	15.9-40.8	38	25.3	16.9-36.0	34	23.3	15.7-33.2	37	24.9	16.9-35.0
Other	16	1	3.9	0.5-25.3	4	50.4	18.5-82.0	4	24.4	6.2-61.3	7	21.2	7.3-47.9
AGE
18-44	40	8	33.0	16.8-54.6	9	26.4	12.8-46.8	10	20.1	9.9-36.6	13	20.4	10.9-35.1
45+	106	14	13.7	7.9-22.7	33	30.2	21.3-40.9	28	27.1	18.7-37.6	31	28.9	19.5-40.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	52	9	29.8	13.4-54.0	7	19.1	6.7-43.7	12	19.5	9.7-35.5	24	31.6	18.3-48.7
Some College +	93	13	19.6	10.2-34.3	35	35.0	24.1-47.8	26	26.4	16.9-38.7	19	19.0	10.9-30.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	84	11	18.3	7.8-37.1	20	24.1	12.5-41.3	23	28.8	17.8-43.2	30	28.8	18.4-41.9
$50,000+	52	8	19.6	9.0-37.6	21	41.2	26.3-57.8	14	19.5	10.7-33.0	9	19.7	9.1-37.4

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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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