BRFSS 2007 - Catawba 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: Catawba 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
-Catawba County	154	10	6.8	3.3-13.5	43	35.0	25.6-45.7	57	31.2	23.3-40.4	44	27.0	19.4-36.3
GENDER
Male	56	3	6.9	2.1-20.6	17	35.2	21.6-51.8	20	29.9	18.0-45.4	16	28.0	16.9-42.6
Female	98	7	6.8	2.8-15.5	26	34.8	22.7-49.1	37	32.2	22.4-43.9	28	26.2	16.4-39.2
RACE
White	135	10	8.3	4.1-16.3	34	30.4	21.0-41.8	50	31.4	23.3-40.9	41	29.8	21.3-40.0
Other	19	0	0.0	. - .	9	55.8	29.0-79.6	7	30.0	11.2-59.4	3	14.2	3.6-42.3
AGE
18-44	49	5	9.0	3.4-22.1	19	43.1	27.4-60.3	17	29.3	17.2-45.3	8	18.6	8.7-35.4
45+	104	5	4.7	1.8-11.8	24	27.1	18.1-38.6	40	33.2	24.3-43.5	35	35.0	25.3-46.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	55	3	4.1	1.2-13.4	15	34.0	18.2-54.4	17	27.9	15.1-45.8	20	34.0	20.2-51.0
Some College +	99	7	8.3	3.5-18.1	28	35.5	24.6-48.1	40	32.9	23.5-43.9	24	23.3	14.6-35.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	76	5	5.4	1.8-14.9	23	39.0	24.6-55.7	19	19.8	10.8-33.4	29	35.8	23.1-50.9
$50,000+	66	5	9.2	3.5-22.0	17	30.0	19.3-43.5	31	42.7	30.5-55.8	13	18.1	10.2-30.2

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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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