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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Iredell 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
-Iredell County 403 273 67.8 60.8-74.1 106 27.2 21.3-34.1 24 4.9 2.7- 9.0
GENDER
Male 152 86 62.8 52.0-72.4 57 33.2 24.1-43.8 9 4.0 2.0- 8.1
Female 251 187 72.1 62.1-80.3 49 22.2 14.7-32.1 15 5.7 2.4-13.2
RACE
White 348 241 70.3 62.8-76.8 87 26.0 19.6-33.5 20 3.7 2.2- 6.1
Other 54 32 57.6 39.6-73.8 18 31.2 17.6-49.2 4 11.2 2.8-35.5
AGE
18-44 120 92 71.9 59.5-81.6 25 24.8 15.7-36.9 3 3.3 0.8-13.4
45+ 282 181 63.4 56.8-69.5 80 29.8 24.1-36.2 21 6.8 4.2-10.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 189 113 58.0 47.3-68.0 60 34.4 24.8-45.5 16 7.6 3.5-15.8
Some College + 214 160 76.9 69.3-83.1 46 20.6 14.7-28.0 8 2.5 1.1- 5.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 188 124 68.8 58.8-77.4 53 28.1 19.9-38.0 11 3.1 1.6- 6.0
$50,000+ 145 107 73.6 63.2-81.9 31 22.7 14.8-33.2 7 3.7 1.6- 8.1

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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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