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| Total Respond.^ |
Smoke everyday | Smoke some days | Former smoker | Never smoked | |||||||||
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| N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | N | % | C.I.(95%) | ||
| North Carolina | 15,776 | 2,183 | 15.5 | 14.6-16.4 | 695 | 5.4 | 4.8- 6.1 | 4,789 | 24.8 | 23.9-25.8 | 8,109 | 54.3 | 53.1-55.5 |
| -Buncombe County | 343 | 40 | 15.0 | 10.2-21.4 | 20 | 7.1 | 4.3-11.5 | 109 | 24.6 | 20.0-30.0 | 174 | 53.3 | 46.5-59.9 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 127 | 20 | 22.0 | 13.5-33.7 | 7 | 4.4 | 2.0- 9.6 | 47 | 27.0 | 19.7-35.9 | 53 | 46.6 | 36.0-57.5 |
| Female | 216 | 20 | 9.5 | 5.3-16.4 | 13 | 9.2 | 5.0-16.4 | 62 | 22.7 | 17.1-29.6 | 121 | 58.5 | 50.1-66.5 |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| White | 309 | 33 | 14.9 | 9.9-22.0 | 15 | 6.5 | 3.7-11.1 | 103 | 25.8 | 20.8-31.5 | 158 | 52.8 | 45.7-59.8 |
| Other | 32 | 7 | 15.7 | 6.8-32.2 | 5 | 13.5 | 4.9-31.8 | 5 | 13.7 | 5.4-30.5 | 15 | 57.1 | 36.8-75.3 |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 75 | 13 | 21.9 | 12.3-36.0 | 7 | 8.4 | 3.7-18.0 | 13 | 13.0 | 7.2-22.3 | 42 | 56.7 | 43.4-69.1 |
| 45+ | 267 | 27 | 10.2 | 6.8-15.1 | 13 | 6.3 | 3.5-11.1 | 95 | 32.5 | 26.7-38.9 | 132 | 51.0 | 44.2-57.7 |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 115 | 27 | 25.1 | 16.6-36.2 | 6 | 4.5 | 1.7-11.4 | 39 | 22.5 | 15.6-31.3 | 43 | 47.9 | 36.1-59.9 |
| Some College + | 227 | 13 | 9.9 | 4.8-19.1 | 13 | 8.1 | 4.5-14.2 | 70 | 25.8 | 20.0-32.7 | 131 | 56.2 | 47.9-64.2 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 184 | 30 | 19.1 | 12.7-27.6 | 11 | 6.0 | 3.1-11.2 | 64 | 25.9 | 19.6-33.3 | 79 | 49.1 | 39.8-58.5 |
| $50,000+ | 122 | 7 | 8.1 | 3.3-18.4 | 7 | 8.4 | 3.8-17.6 | 34 | 24.2 | 17.0-33.4 | 74 | 59.3 | 48.6-69.1 |
* Data in this table were derived from the tobacco use questions 1 and 2.
Overall smoking prevalence estimates can be obtained by adding 'Smoke everyday' and 'Smoke somedays' rates.
^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = 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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