BRFSS 2007 - Durham 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: Durham 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
-Durham County	133	16	11.5	6.2-20.3	42	40.7	26.7-56.4	55	36.8	25.7-49.6	20	11.0	5.9-19.6
GENDER
Male	49	7	11.3	4.4-26.2	11	45.5	24.5-68.2	25	35.4	19.9-54.7	6	7.8	2.7-20.6
Female	84	9	11.7	5.6-22.6	31	34.3	23.3-47.3	30	38.8	26.2-53.1	14	15.2	7.3-28.8
RACE
White	91	9	12.5	6.3-23.5	29	30.4	19.7-43.7	41	49.7	36.6-62.8	12	7.4	4.0-13.4
Other	42	7	10.4	3.6-26.7	13	50.7	28.0-73.2	14	24.4	12.0-43.5	8	14.4	5.7-32.0
AGE
18-44	46	4	4.8	1.5-14.0	22	56.7	36.3-75.0	18	33.8	18.5-53.5	2	4.8	1.0-20.2
45+	85	11	21.3	11.0-37.0	19	15.7	9.4-25.0	37	42.4	30.5-55.3	18	20.6	11.6-34.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	31	2	3.1	0.6-13.9	12	63.3	36.6-83.8	9	26.0	10.5-51.2	8	7.6	2.9-18.3
Some College +	102	14	16.4	8.9-28.3	30	27.5	18.1-39.5	46	43.2	31.4-55.8	12	12.9	6.1-25.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	49	6	10.1	4.3-22.2	15	30.3	16.4-49.0	19	46.8	30.0-64.3	9	12.8	6.1-24.9
$50,000+	68	9	13.7	6.8-25.6	21	36.1	23.0-51.7	33	43.0	29.4-57.7	5	7.3	2.0-22.8

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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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