BRFSS 2007 - Mecklenburg 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: Mecklenburg 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
-Mecklenburg County	273	28	10.8	6.7-17.0	69	27.1	20.7-34.5	103	37.5	30.5-45.2	73	24.6	18.8-31.4
GENDER
Male	97	9	9.2	3.9-20.5	21	26.3	16.3-39.5	34	32.8	22.3-45.5	33	31.6	21.5-43.9
Female	176	19	12.2	7.0-20.3	48	27.7	20.4-36.4	69	41.5	32.8-50.8	40	18.6	13.2-25.7
RACE
White	192	18	9.5	5.2-16.9	47	25.3	18.6-33.6	78	42.8	34.1-52.0	49	22.3	16.1-30.0
Other	80	10	13.2	6.1-26.1	22	30.2	18.6-45.2	25	28.4	18.2-41.4	23	28.2	17.6-41.8
AGE
18-44	111	12	10.4	5.0-20.4	34	31.5	22.0-42.8	37	33.4	23.6-44.9	28	24.7	16.5-35.2
45+	158	16	11.7	6.8-19.5	34	20.6	14.5-28.4	63	42.6	34.1-51.6	45	25.1	18.6-33.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	67	9	18.3	8.7-34.6	10	14.9	6.9-29.2	29	43.4	28.9-59.1	19	23.4	13.3-37.8
Some College +	206	19	8.2	4.4-14.5	59	31.4	23.7-40.2	74	35.4	27.7-44.1	54	25.0	18.4-32.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	97	17	20.3	10.9-34.7	26	31.7	19.7-46.7	28	21.6	13.7-32.3	26	26.4	16.1-40.1
$50,000+	143	10	6.5	3.2-12.9	36	25.5	18.1-34.5	61	44.5	34.9-54.6	36	23.5	16.5-32.2

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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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