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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Gaston County

TRU Campaign/Tobacco Opinion

States add a special tax to the purchase of cigarettes. The national average tax is $1.18 per
pack and North Carolina's tax is $0.35 cents per pack.
Would you favor or oppose raising North Carolina's cigarette tax to $1.18 for people who smoke:

If part of the tax revenue was used to reduce tobacco use, particularly among kids?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Favor Oppose Don't know
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 12,176 8,505 69.4 67.9-70.8 3,065 26.1 24.7-27.5 606 4.5 4.0- 5.2
-Gaston County 315 221 66.8 59.0-73.7 83 29.0 22.6-36.3 11 4.2 1.5-11.7
GENDER
Male 116 74 61.0 48.5-72.2 41 33.9 24.0-45.4 1 5.1 0.7-27.9
Female 199 147 71.3 61.5-79.4 42 25.1 17.2-35.1 10 3.6 1.7- 7.3
RACE
White 270 190 68.3 60.3-75.4 72 30.0 23.0-38.0 8 1.8 0.8- 3.9
Other 45 31 59.5 37.8-78.0 11 24.2 12.0-42.7 3 16.3 3.6-50.2
AGE
18-44 83 61 70.0 56.1-81.0 20 24.0 14.9-36.2 2 6.0 1.2-25.8
45+ 229 157 63.9 55.0-72.0 63 33.2 25.2-42.3 9 2.9 1.4- 5.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 172 120 64.3 53.4-73.9 44 32.6 23.1-43.8 8 3.0 1.4- 6.6
Some College + 142 101 69.2 58.0-78.5 38 25.4 17.7-35.1 3 5.4 1.1-22.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 176 117 61.0 50.4-70.7 51 31.5 23.4-41.0 8 7.5 2.3-21.5
$50,000+ 83 68 78.6 62.7-88.9 15 21.4 11.1-37.3 0 0.0 . - .

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^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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