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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: New Hanover 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
-New Hanover County 383 289 69.1 60.7-76.5 77 28.0 20.8-36.6 17 2.8 1.6- 4.9
GENDER
Male 144 101 65.6 52.8-76.5 36 32.1 21.4-45.1 7 2.3 0.9- 5.5
Female 239 188 72.3 60.6-81.6 41 24.3 15.2-36.5 10 3.3 1.6- 6.6
RACE
White 328 255 73.5 64.4-80.9 60 24.1 16.9-33.3 13 2.4 1.2- 4.5
Other 53 32 46.5 28.7-65.2 17 48.4 29.6-67.7 4 5.1 1.7-14.5
AGE
18-44 78 58 68.4 52.2-81.1 17 29.6 17.2-46.1 3 1.9 0.6- 6.3
45+ 299 229 70.6 62.9-77.3 58 26.3 19.7-34.1 12 3.1 1.7- 5.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 119 88 64.5 48.3-78.0 25 31.9 18.8-48.7 6 3.5 1.4- 8.8
Some College + 264 201 71.4 61.5-79.6 52 26.1 18.1-36.2 11 2.5 1.3- 4.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 162 108 56.4 43.2-68.7 42 38.6 26.4-52.5 12 5.0 2.6- 9.4
$50,000+ 165 138 81.9 72.3-88.7 24 16.1 9.6-25.7 3 2.0 0.6- 6.4

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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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