BRFSS 2007 - New Hanover 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: New Hanover 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
-New Hanover County	152	25	14.7	9.2-22.6	32	20.6	12.8-31.4	58	38.0	28.0-49.1	37	26.8	16.9-39.7
GENDER
Male	52	8	11.9	5.0-25.8	13	22.0	9.8-42.1	19	36.2	20.6-55.3	12	29.9	14.0-52.8
Female	100	17	17.6	10.6-27.6	19	19.1	12.1-28.9	39	39.9	29.8-51.0	25	23.4	15.3-34.1
RACE
White	135	18	10.5	6.2-17.3	32	23.8	14.9-35.7	53	37.9	27.7-49.3	32	27.8	17.0-42.2
Other	17	7	41.4	15.7-72.8	0	0.0	. - .	5	38.8	11.8-75.1	5	19.8	6.8-45.4
AGE
18-44	42	9	15.9	7.3-31.1	6	15.6	5.0-39.2	16	38.9	22.0-58.9	11	29.6	13.2-53.8
45+	110	16	13.5	7.9-22.0	26	25.3	17.2-35.6	42	37.2	27.8-47.6	26	24.0	16.1-34.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	48	10	12.3	5.5-25.3	8	20.3	7.0-46.2	17	29.0	13.8-50.9	13	38.4	18.5-63.3
Some College +	104	15	16.2	9.2-27.0	24	20.8	13.5-30.5	41	43.9	33.0-55.4	24	19.1	12.2-28.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	71	18	20.9	11.4-35.3	12	20.2	8.7-40.2	19	20.9	10.1-38.3	22	38.0	21.2-58.2
$50,000+	72	6	7.9	3.4-17.4	17	19.8	11.8-31.2	36	57.9	45.0-69.9	13	14.4	8.1-24.1

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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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