BRFSS 2007 - Robeson 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: Robeson 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
-Robeson County	152	18	15.2	8.3-26.3	39	30.1	20.9-41.2	41	20.6	13.9-29.3	54	34.1	24.5-45.3
GENDER
Male	63	6	14.9	6.0-32.5	21	34.2	21.4-49.9	16	17.8	9.9-29.9	20	33.1	20.3-49.1
Female	89	12	15.7	8.5-27.3	18	22.5	13.4-35.4	25	25.7	16.1-38.5	34	36.0	24.5-49.4
RACE
White	61	6	17.3	5.3-43.8	15	25.0	13.6-41.4	17	29.9	16.6-47.6	23	27.9	16.5-43.0
Other	91	12	14.2	7.1-26.5	24	32.4	20.7-47.0	24	16.3	9.7-25.9	31	37.1	24.6-51.6
AGE
18-44	52	9	19.2	8.8-37.1	14	31.7	18.3-49.0	13	14.3	7.4-25.8	16	34.8	20.7-52.2
45+	99	9	9.5	4.6-18.8	25	28.1	18.8-39.9	28	30.1	19.6-43.3	37	32.2	22.8-43.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	86	12	18.1	8.5-34.6	24	34.2	21.5-49.6	18	15.9	8.6-27.4	32	31.8	20.1-46.4
Some College +	65	6	10.8	4.1-25.7	15	24.1	13.4-39.4	23	28.4	17.1-43.2	21	36.7	22.0-54.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	107	14	16.9	8.2-31.7	31	34.2	22.7-48.0	25	17.5	10.6-27.6	37	31.3	20.6-44.5
$50,000+	27	1	3.3	0.5-20.4	7	33.0	15.1-57.8	11	33.4	16.3-56.4	8	30.3	14.3-53.1

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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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