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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Orange 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
-Orange County 345 278 80.3 74.0-85.4 56 14.4 10.8-19.0 11 5.2 2.1-12.3
GENDER
Male 130 99 80.0 71.8-86.2 27 16.7 11.1-24.3 4 3.4 1.2- 9.0
Female 215 179 80.6 70.9-87.6 29 12.8 8.5-18.9 7 6.6 2.1-19.4
RACE
White 278 235 85.5 80.3-89.6 35 11.7 8.1-16.7 8 2.7 1.3- 5.8
Other 61 41 69.1 51.9-82.3 17 18.7 10.8-30.4 3 12.2 3.2-36.6
AGE
18-44 89 76 84.0 70.2-92.2 11 9.8 5.1-17.9 2 6.2 1.2-26.5
45+ 250 198 77.8 71.3-83.2 43 17.5 12.8-23.5 9 4.7 2.2- 9.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 77 46 56.8 40.6-71.6 25 26.3 16.2-39.5 6 17.0 5.8-40.7
Some College + 266 232 88.2 83.2-91.8 29 10.2 6.9-14.9 5 1.7 0.6- 4.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 97 69 76.7 66.6-84.5 25 19.4 12.6-28.6 3 3.9 1.1-12.4
$50,000+ 197 175 88.5 82.3-92.7 18 9.5 5.7-15.3 4 2.1 0.7- 5.9

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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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