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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Johnston 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
-Johnston County 333 209 61.0 53.2-68.3 101 30.9 24.0-38.8 23 8.1 4.8-13.3
GENDER
Male 124 74 53.8 41.7-65.5 44 40.3 28.7-53.1 6 5.9 2.5-13.5
Female 209 135 67.4 58.3-75.3 57 22.6 16.4-30.1 17 10.1 5.3-18.3
RACE
White 269 162 55.7 47.0-64.0 91 37.7 29.5-46.6 16 6.7 3.3-12.9
Other 62 47 81.0 67.6-89.6 9 8.1 3.8-16.5 6 11.0 4.6-23.7
AGE
18-44 114 71 60.2 47.4-71.9 37 32.0 21.1-45.2 6 7.8 3.2-17.6
45+ 217 138 62.4 54.3-69.9 63 29.3 22.4-37.2 16 8.3 4.9-13.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 162 101 62.8 52.8-71.9 46 25.0 17.7-34.1 15 12.2 6.4-21.9
Some College + 170 108 59.7 48.1-70.3 54 35.4 25.1-47.3 8 4.9 2.1-10.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 153 101 69.0 58.9-77.6 42 23.4 15.9-32.9 10 7.6 3.7-15.0
$50,000+ 144 90 58.2 46.0-69.5 45 36.1 25.1-48.8 9 5.7 2.6-12.2

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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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