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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 was used to expand health insurance coverage for the uninsured in North Carolina?

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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 12,184 8,667 72.0 70.6-73.4 2,752 22.6 21.3-24.0 765 5.3 4.8- 6.0
-Gaston County 314 228 72.2 65.2-78.2 68 23.3 17.6-30.3 18 4.5 2.7- 7.5
GENDER
Male 117 76 69.3 58.5-78.2 34 25.6 17.4-36.0 7 5.2 2.3-11.3
Female 197 152 74.4 64.6-82.3 34 21.6 14.0-31.7 11 4.0 2.1- 7.6
RACE
White 270 192 70.4 62.7-77.1 61 24.3 18.0-32.0 17 5.3 3.1- 8.9
Other 44 36 80.7 61.8-91.5 7 18.5 7.9-37.5 1 0.8 0.1- 5.8
AGE
18-44 82 63 77.6 66.1-86.0 17 20.0 12.1-31.1 2 2.4 0.6- 9.6
45+ 229 162 67.6 58.7-75.4 51 26.2 18.7-35.4 16 6.2 3.6-10.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 171 122 66.9 56.0-76.2 38 28.2 19.2-39.4 11 5.0 2.4-10.0
Some College + 142 106 77.2 68.3-84.2 29 18.7 12.4-27.3 7 4.1 1.9- 8.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 176 125 71.2 62.1-78.9 42 24.6 17.4-33.6 9 4.2 2.0- 8.6
$50,000+ 83 67 75.1 59.6-86.1 14 23.1 12.3-39.0 2 1.8 0.5- 7.1

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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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