BRFSS 2007 - Orange 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: Orange 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
-Orange County	141	10	6.0	3.0-11.7	40	22.6	14.8-32.9	67	48.2	36.6-60.1	24	23.1	12.6-38.6
GENDER
Male	62	3	4.5	1.4-13.6	17	21.5	11.3-36.9	32	45.4	29.8-62.0	10	28.6	13.5-50.7
Female	79	7	8.6	3.9-17.7	23	24.5	15.1-37.1	35	53.0	39.0-66.6	14	13.9	7.6-24.3
RACE
White	123	9	6.4	3.1-12.9	35	21.2	14.0-30.7	62	53.3	40.2-66.0	17	19.1	8.5-37.5
Other	17	1	4.4	0.6-26.7	5	30.5	8.8-66.7	5	25.9	8.9-55.6	6	39.2	14.0-72.0
AGE
18-44	42	2	1.7	0.4- 7.5	10	17.7	7.6-36.3	21	47.4	28.8-66.8	9	33.2	15.7-57.0
45+	99	8	11.1	5.4-21.5	30	28.2	19.4-39.1	46	49.2	38.2-60.3	15	11.5	6.6-19.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	28	3	7.7	2.1-24.3	7	24.6	8.2-54.3	9	24.9	9.8-50.3	9	42.8	17.0-73.2
Some College +	113	7	5.4	2.4-11.8	33	21.8	14.6-31.3	58	57.4	45.4-68.6	15	15.4	7.6-28.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	42	3	5.4	1.5-17.7	12	20.6	7.9-44.0	15	35.7	17.4-59.6	12	38.3	16.5-66.0
$50,000+	84	5	5.9	2.3-14.5	27	27.6	18.3-39.4	44	52.4	40.0-64.6	8	14.0	6.4-28.1

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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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