BRFSS 2007 - Guilford 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: Guilford 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
-Guilford County	153	17	9.2	5.3-15.6	37	19.7	13.6-27.7	39	37.3	25.8-50.5	60	33.7	24.9-43.9
GENDER
Male	47	6	10.1	3.9-23.7	10	14.2	6.9-27.1	11	45.7	25.4-67.5	20	29.9	16.6-47.9
Female	106	11	8.5	4.6-15.4	27	24.2	16.2-34.3	28	30.5	20.6-42.6	40	36.8	26.8-48.1
RACE
White	111	13	9.4	5.0-17.0	25	20.3	12.9-30.4	34	43.2	29.2-58.3	39	27.1	18.0-38.6
Other	42	4	8.9	2.9-24.3	12	18.5	9.4-33.2	5	25.2	9.5-51.9	21	47.4	29.5-66.0
AGE
18-44	44	4	6.8	2.4-17.8	9	13.2	6.2-25.8	15	54.1	34.7-72.3	16	25.9	14.0-42.8
45+	109	13	11.4	6.1-20.3	28	25.4	17.3-35.6	24	22.6	14.2-33.9	44	40.6	30.3-51.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	48	8	11.8	4.9-25.6	12	16.8	8.1-31.9	8	41.8	18.4-69.5	20	29.6	15.2-49.6
Some College +	105	9	8.2	3.9-16.3	25	20.9	13.7-30.7	31	35.3	23.8-49.0	40	35.6	25.3-47.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	59	6	7.2	2.8-17.1	14	17.4	9.4-29.9	13	36.7	20.2-57.0	26	38.7	24.1-55.5
$50,000+	68	7	10.1	4.2-22.0	17	18.0	10.2-29.9	23	44.2	26.7-63.4	21	27.7	16.4-42.7

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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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