SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Mecklenburg 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?

View results for a demographic group:
 Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  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
-Mecklenburg County 568 444 79.1 74.3-83.2 95 16.8 13.0-21.5 29 4.1 2.6- 6.4
GENDER
Male 209 152 74.3 66.5-80.8 45 20.5 14.7-28.0 12 5.2 2.6- 9.9
Female 359 292 83.4 77.2-88.2 50 13.5 9.1-19.7 17 3.1 1.7- 5.4
RACE
White 399 308 74.2 67.7-79.7 71 21.5 16.3-27.9 20 4.3 2.4- 7.6
Other 160 132 89.2 83.2-93.2 20 7.9 4.5-13.4 8 3.0 1.4- 6.4
AGE
18-44 175 150 84.8 76.5-90.5 19 12.9 7.5-21.2 6 2.3 0.9- 5.6
45+ 389 290 72.6 66.9-77.7 76 21.3 16.8-26.7 23 6.0 3.5-10.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 134 100 73.9 61.3-83.5 24 20.0 11.3-32.7 10 6.1 2.7-13.4
Some College + 432 343 81.1 76.2-85.2 70 15.5 11.8-20.2 19 3.3 1.9- 5.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 207 163 82.0 74.0-87.9 32 13.5 8.6-20.7 12 4.5 2.0-10.0
$50,000+ 268 218 83.6 78.3-87.8 40 13.4 9.6-18.3 10 3.1 1.5- 6.2

Back to TRU Campaign/Tobacco Opinion.

^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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 17JUN10.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook