BRFSS 2007 - Rowan 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: Rowan 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
-Rowan County	169	16	11.1	5.6-20.5	31	21.8	14.0-32.4	54	25.7	18.6-34.3	68	41.4	32.2-51.4
GENDER
Male	80	7	13.6	5.5-29.9	12	18.5	9.3-33.5	22	22.1	12.9-35.1	39	45.8	32.6-59.5
Female	89	9	7.6	3.8-14.8	19	26.2	14.6-42.4	32	30.5	20.6-42.6	29	35.7	23.4-50.2
RACE
White	138	12	8.8	4.3-17.1	27	22.5	14.2-33.7	42	24.1	16.9-33.1	57	44.6	34.5-55.3
Other	30	4	19.6	5.1-52.5	4	20.0	5.2-53.3	12	32.0	14.4-56.8	10	28.3	12.0-53.5
AGE
18-44	51	5	13.1	4.7-31.7	10	24.9	12.4-43.7	16	21.8	11.8-36.7	20	40.2	25.5-56.8
45+	118	11	8.9	4.7-16.2	21	18.5	11.5-28.2	38	29.8	21.6-39.6	48	42.8	33.1-53.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	74	5	8.6	2.1-29.1	14	21.3	10.7-38.2	20	20.6	11.5-34.2	35	49.4	34.2-64.7
Some College +	95	11	13.3	6.6-25.0	17	22.2	12.3-36.8	34	30.2	20.5-42.0	33	34.3	23.7-46.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	100	8	10.7	4.0-25.7	21	28.7	17.1-44.0	32	26.5	16.9-39.0	39	34.1	23.5-46.6
$50,000+	53	8	14.7	6.3-30.9	8	13.6	6.3-26.7	17	23.3	13.8-36.5	20	48.4	32.9-64.3

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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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