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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Mecklenburg County

Other Tobacco Products

During the past 30 days, did you smoke cigars, cigarillos, or little cigars?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 5,538 168 5.8 4.5- 7.3 5,370 94.2 92.7-95.5
-Mecklenburg County 260 13 12.1 5.7-24.0 247 87.9 76.0-94.3
GENDER
Male 99 6 6.4 2.5-15.5 93 93.6 84.5-97.5
Female 161 7 17.1 6.7-37.1 154 82.9 62.9-93.3
RACE
White 187 7 5.1 2.2-11.4 180 94.9 88.6-97.8
Other 71 6 22.9 9.0-47.0 65 77.1 53.0-91.0
AGE
18-44 82 8 20.4 9.0-39.8 74 79.6 60.2-91.0
45+ 175 5 3.0 1.2- 7.7 170 97.0 92.3-98.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 62 5 19.5 7.4-42.2 57 80.5 57.8-92.6
Some College + 197 8 9.7 3.2-25.8 189 90.3 74.2-96.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 94 10 29.5 14.1-51.6 84 70.5 48.4-85.9
$50,000+ 130 2 1.7 0.4- 7.1 128 98.3 92.9-99.6

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*Asked of all respondents regardless of smoking status.

^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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