BRFSS 2007 - Cumberland 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: Cumberland 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
-Cumberland County	149	21	12.5	7.5-19.9	28	18.9	11.4-29.6	45	32.1	22.8-43.2	55	36.6	27.0-47.3
GENDER
Male	47	7	12.1	5.2-25.9	8	21.2	9.3-41.3	16	33.6	19.1-52.0	16	33.1	18.6-51.6
Female	102	14	12.8	7.3-21.4	20	16.4	10.1-25.6	29	30.6	20.4-43.1	39	40.1	29.6-51.7
RACE
White	80	8	7.3	3.2-15.8	18	23.3	12.2-39.9	26	36.2	22.5-52.6	28	33.2	20.4-49.0
Other	69	13	19.2	10.4-32.8	10	13.0	5.9-26.2	19	26.8	16.5-40.3	27	41.0	28.3-55.1
AGE
18-44	65	10	10.8	5.0-21.6	12	21.0	10.5-37.6	18	31.8	19.0-48.2	25	36.4	23.2-52.0
45+	84	11	15.4	8.3-26.7	16	15.2	9.0-24.5	27	32.6	22.4-44.8	30	36.8	26.1-49.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	56	10	14.9	7.1-28.8	12	27.5	12.8-49.4	11	25.7	11.9-47.0	23	31.9	19.1-48.2
Some College +	93	11	10.9	5.4-20.7	16	13.4	7.6-22.4	34	36.2	24.8-49.5	32	39.5	27.2-53.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	87	16	17.5	9.8-29.4	12	15.2	7.4-28.9	25	29.9	18.8-44.0	34	37.3	24.7-51.9
$50,000+	49	4	5.9	2.1-15.2	14	21.5	11.9-35.7	15	32.6	18.9-50.2	16	40.0	25.1-57.1

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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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