BRFSS 2007 - Davidson 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: Davidson 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
-Davidson County	123	16	11.6	6.4-20.2	16	12.1	6.7-20.9	35	39.5	26.3-54.4	56	36.8	26.2-48.8
GENDER
Male	40	6	14.1	5.1-33.6	5	10.1	3.7-24.8	10	38.3	15.3-68.0	19	37.4	19.5-59.6
Female	83	10	10.1	4.8-20.0	11	13.2	6.4-25.4	25	40.2	26.1-56.2	37	36.4	24.2-50.6
RACE
White	104	13	13.9	7.4-24.6	15	14.1	7.9-23.9	29	29.8	19.5-42.6	47	42.2	31.0-54.2
Other	18	3	7.5	2.0-24.3	1	9.6	1.3-45.7	5	51.4	23.6-78.4	9	31.5	13.3-58.0
AGE
18-44	33	7	15.3	6.5-31.9	3	6.1	1.6-20.4	13	54.4	32.8-74.5	10	24.2	11.3-44.5
45+	90	9	7.7	3.8-14.7	13	18.5	10.3-31.2	22	23.6	15.4-34.4	46	50.2	38.8-61.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	61	8	13.4	5.8-28.0	7	10.8	4.3-24.2	13	29.0	14.4-49.8	33	46.8	30.7-63.7
Some College +	61	8	10.1	4.2-22.3	9	13.3	6.0-27.0	21	47.9	29.2-67.3	23	28.6	16.8-44.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	66	8	6.5	2.9-14.0	13	15.8	7.9-29.2	16	44.2	24.7-65.8	29	33.5	19.2-51.5
$50,000+	36	4	18.4	6.9-40.6	1	2.6	0.4-16.7	15	43.2	25.8-62.6	16	35.7	20.9-53.9

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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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