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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 | 13,219 | 1,774 | 14.4 | 13.4-15.5 | 619 | 5.9 | 5.1- 6.8 | 4,064 | 26.2 | 24.9-27.5 | 6,762 | 53.5 | 52.0-55.1 |
| -Gaston County | 351 | 47 | 15.9 | 11.0-22.3 | 21 | 7.8 | 4.4-13.4 | 108 | 25.4 | 20.4-31.1 | 175 | 51.0 | 44.0-57.9 |
| GENDER | |||||||||||||
| Male | 133 | 21 | 15.6 | 9.4-24.7 | 7 | 9.4 | 3.9-20.8 | 52 | 30.9 | 22.5-40.9 | 53 | 44.1 | 33.3-55.6 |
| Female | 218 | 26 | 16.1 | 9.5-26.1 | 14 | 6.4 | 3.3-12.0 | 56 | 20.5 | 15.2-27.1 | 122 | 57.0 | 48.1-65.4 |
| RACE | |||||||||||||
| White | 298 | 40 | 16.2 | 10.8-23.5 | 17 | 8.3 | 4.4-15.1 | 99 | 28.5 | 22.8-35.1 | 142 | 47.0 | 39.6-54.6 |
| Other | 53 | 7 | 14.7 | 6.1-31.3 | 4 | 5.7 | 1.9-15.5 | 9 | 11.8 | 5.3-24.3 | 33 | 67.8 | 51.1-81.0 |
| AGE | |||||||||||||
| 18-44 | 95 | 14 | 14.0 | 7.5-24.4 | 10 | 12.2 | 5.9-23.7 | 16 | 13.5 | 7.9-22.0 | 55 | 60.4 | 48.3-71.3 |
| 45+ | 252 | 33 | 17.8 | 11.4-26.6 | 11 | 3.9 | 2.0- 7.5 | 91 | 35.9 | 29.0-43.5 | 117 | 42.4 | 35.2-50.0 |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||||||
| H.S. or Less | 193 | 33 | 20.5 | 13.0-30.7 | 11 | 8.1 | 3.6-17.0 | 55 | 22.0 | 16.0-29.5 | 94 | 49.4 | 40.2-58.7 |
| Some College + | 156 | 14 | 11.9 | 6.5-20.8 | 10 | 7.6 | 3.3-16.3 | 53 | 28.7 | 21.1-37.6 | 79 | 51.8 | 41.6-61.8 |
| HOUSEHOLD INCOME | |||||||||||||
| Less than $50,000 | 195 | 30 | 16.2 | 10.4-24.1 | 13 | 6.5 | 3.5-11.7 | 66 | 29.0 | 21.7-37.6 | 86 | 48.3 | 38.8-58.0 |
| $50,000+ | 86 | 7 | 13.8 | 5.3-31.6 | 3 | 3.1 | 0.9-10.0 | 29 | 28.4 | 19.1-40.1 | 47 | 54.6 | 41.6-67.0 |
*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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