BRFSS 2007 - Union 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: Union 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
-Union County	138	9	6.0	2.9-12.1	33	24.2	16.8-33.7	44	30.6	21.6-41.3	52	39.2	29.2-50.1
GENDER
Male	55	4	7.6	2.7-19.4	10	17.4	8.9-31.2	15	22.5	12.8-36.6	26	52.5	36.8-67.8
Female	83	5	4.6	1.7-12.2	23	30.4	19.6-44.0	29	37.8	24.7-53.0	26	27.1	17.5-39.4
RACE
White	118	9	7.5	3.6-14.9	26	22.9	15.2-32.9	39	32.0	22.2-43.8	44	37.6	27.8-48.5
Other	20	0	0.0	. - .	7	29.7	11.8-57.1	5	24.7	8.8-52.9	8	45.6	19.6-74.2
AGE
18-44	43	4	7.7	2.7-19.8	11	23.4	12.4-39.7	14	32.5	17.7-51.9	14	36.5	20.6-56.1
45+	94	5	4.6	1.7-11.9	22	25.1	16.2-36.8	29	28.6	19.4-39.9	38	41.7	30.9-53.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	52	5	6.8	2.4-17.5	14	28.4	15.8-45.7	13	31.5	15.7-53.3	20	33.3	19.8-50.2
Some College +	86	4	5.6	2.0-14.6	19	21.9	13.4-33.6	31	30.0	20.3-41.9	32	42.5	29.8-56.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	53	4	6.0	2.0-16.4	15	28.5	15.9-45.5	15	24.4	13.5-40.0	19	41.1	24.4-60.1
$50,000+	62	4	7.3	2.7-18.6	14	24.7	14.7-38.5	21	28.8	18.2-42.5	23	39.1	26.0-54.0

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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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