BRFSS 2007 - Iredell 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: Iredell 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
-Iredell County	143	22	18.5	11.6-28.3	26	17.8	11.2-27.1	43	30.8	21.3-42.2	52	32.9	24.4-42.7
GENDER
Male	55	6	15.1	6.8-30.1	12	22.1	12.3-36.6	17	27.2	16.0-42.2	20	35.6	22.9-50.8
Female	88	16	21.2	11.7-35.4	14	14.4	6.7-28.2	26	33.6	20.3-50.1	32	30.8	20.4-43.7
RACE
White	123	19	19.5	11.7-30.5	23	18.5	11.2-29.1	36	27.3	19.1-37.5	45	34.7	25.5-45.1
Other	19	3	14.9	4.2-41.3	3	15.1	4.3-41.2	7	47.1	18.9-77.2	6	22.9	8.3-49.5
AGE
18-44	42	11	27.0	14.4-45.0	6	15.4	6.0-34.1	12	32.4	16.8-53.1	13	25.1	13.8-41.4
45+	101	11	11.0	5.6-20.5	20	19.9	12.4-30.2	31	29.3	20.2-40.6	39	39.8	29.4-51.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	64	8	11.7	5.1-24.3	13	24.4	12.5-42.2	16	30.0	14.6-51.7	27	34.0	21.3-49.5
Some College +	79	14	23.5	13.5-37.7	13	13.0	6.9-23.1	27	31.4	20.9-44.1	25	32.2	21.4-45.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	72	11	18.5	9.8-32.2	13	19.0	10.5-31.9	19	21.6	12.7-34.3	29	40.9	28.5-54.6
$50,000+	58	9	18.8	8.7-35.9	11	20.0	9.7-36.9	20	31.3	19.5-46.1	18	29.9	18.2-45.0

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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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