BRFSS 2007 - Wayne 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: Wayne 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
-Wayne County	128	15	11.0	6.2-18.6	33	24.6	16.5-35.1	37	37.1	25.9-49.9	43	27.3	18.5-38.3
GENDER
Male	51	6	9.4	3.8-21.2	9	18.0	8.7-33.4	17	46.2	28.8-64.6	19	26.4	14.5-43.1
Female	77	9	12.7	6.1-24.6	24	32.1	20.4-46.6	20	26.8	16.8-39.9	24	28.4	17.0-43.3
RACE
White	86	6	6.7	2.7-15.5	18	14.8	8.5-24.4	26	41.2	26.6-57.5	36	37.3	24.4-52.3
Other	41	9	18.7	9.0-34.8	15	42.3	25.7-60.9	11	30.0	15.9-49.5	6	9.0	3.7-20.1
AGE
18-44	40	6	11.4	4.8-24.7	12	26.6	14.0-44.8	16	51.5	32.8-69.8	6	10.5	3.2-29.7
45+	88	9	10.6	5.0-20.9	21	22.5	14.0-34.2	21	22.5	14.1-33.9	37	44.4	32.0-57.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less	61	8	11.9	5.4-24.1	16	29.0	16.3-46.3	17	41.6	24.3-61.2	20	17.5	9.9-28.9
Some College +	67	7	10.0	4.3-21.7	17	20.1	11.6-32.6	20	32.6	20.6-47.5	23	37.2	23.5-53.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000	65	9	13.7	6.4-27.1	18	25.9	15.1-40.8	16	30.8	18.2-47.1	22	29.6	17.3-45.8
$50,000+	39	4	9.1	3.2-23.1	10	21.4	10.4-39.0	13	45.5	26.1-66.4	12	24.0	12.6-40.8

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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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