BRFSS 2007 - Onslow 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: Onslow 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
-Onslow County	132	22	15.0	8.9-24.0	18	11.0	6.5-18.0	44	42.3	31.5-54.0	48	31.7	22.5-42.6
GENDER
Male	32	6	17.8	6.6-39.8	5	10.3	3.8-25.0	10	43.2	24.1-64.5	11	28.7	13.8-50.2
Female	100	16	13.4	7.8-22.0	13	11.4	6.1-20.1	34	41.8	29.4-55.4	37	33.4	22.8-46.0
RACE
White	101	19	17.3	9.9-28.5	14	12.0	6.7-20.7	31	39.1	27.3-52.3	37	31.6	21.6-43.7
Other	31	3	8.0	2.2-25.1	4	8.0	2.6-22.3	13	52.1	29.0-74.4	11	31.9	14.1-57.2
AGE
18-44	61	9	13.8	6.3-27.4	8	9.0	4.2-18.3	25	48.7	33.6-64.0	19	28.5	16.7-44.1
45+	70	13	17.3	9.8-28.8	10	14.8	7.4-27.4	19	30.2	19.2-44.2	28	37.7	26.2-50.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	51	8	18.2	7.4-38.1	13	21.3	11.4-36.3	16	33.7	19.0-52.4	14	26.8	13.9-45.5
Some College +	81	14	13.0	7.2-22.2	5	4.6	1.7-12.0	28	47.7	33.7-62.1	34	34.7	23.0-48.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	69	15	23.7	12.6-40.3	13	18.8	10.4-31.6	16	28.7	16.6-44.9	25	28.7	18.4-41.8
$50,000+	50	7	10.8	4.9-22.1	5	6.7	2.4-17.7	22	51.4	34.3-68.3	16	31.0	17.2-49.4

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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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