BRFSS 2007 - Gaston 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: Gaston 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
-Gaston County	153	20	14.1	7.4-25.1	34	16.5	10.8-24.6	44	35.4	25.5-46.8	55	34.0	23.8-45.9
GENDER
Male	61	8	15.2	5.7-34.6	12	15.1	7.4-28.4	22	38.1	23.4-55.3	19	31.6	17.0-51.0
Female	92	12	12.7	6.8-22.3	22	18.4	11.5-28.0	22	31.9	20.4-46.0	36	37.1	26.0-49.7
RACE
White	135	16	12.9	6.1-25.1	31	18.1	11.6-27.0	37	35.4	25.2-47.2	51	33.6	24.4-44.2
Other	18	4	19.2	4.9-52.2	3	10.0	2.4-33.4	7	35.3	12.7-67.2	4	35.5	9.0-75.4
AGE
18-44	48	7	14.1	5.0-34.0	11	15.5	7.4-29.8	16	36.7	21.2-55.5	14	33.7	17.6-54.6
45+	104	13	14.1	6.8-27.1	23	17.7	11.2-26.9	28	34.1	23.4-46.8	40	34.0	24.4-45.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	67	12	15.7	7.4-30.2	8	9.7	4.3-20.7	20	40.2	24.1-58.6	27	34.4	18.7-54.4
Some College +	86	8	12.6	4.2-32.4	26	22.9	14.0-35.1	24	31.0	20.2-44.3	28	33.6	22.1-47.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	87	12	13.5	6.3-26.6	19	17.9	9.7-30.6	20	27.4	16.0-42.7	36	41.2	26.1-58.1
$50,000+	45	5	16.2	4.5-44.1	11	15.3	7.7-28.2	17	38.4	22.9-56.8	12	30.0	16.3-48.6

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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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