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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 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
-New Hanover County 383 286 79.4 73.3-84.3 81 18.0 13.3-23.9 16 2.7 1.5- 4.7
GENDER
Male 145 99 73.5 62.4-82.2 39 23.3 15.0-34.3 7 3.2 1.4- 7.2
Female 238 187 84.8 79.2-89.1 42 13.1 9.1-18.4 9 2.1 1.0- 4.5
RACE
White 327 241 77.5 70.5-83.3 72 19.7 14.3-26.6 14 2.7 1.5- 5.1
Other 54 43 88.0 77.6-93.9 9 9.7 4.6-19.3 2 2.3 0.6- 9.1
AGE
18-44 77 64 86.6 74.4-93.5 11 12.1 5.6-24.5 2 1.2 0.3- 5.3
45+ 300 220 73.8 67.7-79.1 66 22.2 17.2-28.1 14 4.0 2.2- 7.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 118 93 84.8 75.7-90.9 20 13.1 7.5-21.9 5 2.0 0.7- 5.9
Some College + 265 193 76.7 68.8-83.1 61 20.3 14.3-28.1 11 3.0 1.5- 5.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 162 118 79.0 70.1-85.9 37 18.2 11.9-26.8 7 2.8 1.2- 6.4
$50,000+ 165 125 80.4 72.8-86.3 34 16.6 11.3-23.8 6 3.0 1.2- 7.2

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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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