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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 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
-Orange County 346 273 80.8 75.7-85.1 61 15.5 11.8-20.0 12 3.7 1.8- 7.4
GENDER
Male 131 100 79.5 70.9-86.1 28 17.6 11.9-25.3 3 2.9 0.6-12.6
Female 215 173 81.8 75.2-87.0 33 13.9 9.5-19.8 9 4.3 2.0- 9.0
RACE
White 279 226 82.9 77.6-87.1 44 14.5 10.6-19.5 9 2.6 1.2- 5.6
Other 61 45 79.2 66.0-88.2 13 14.0 7.6-24.5 3 6.7 2.0-20.7
AGE
18-44 89 74 85.8 76.5-91.8 13 11.3 6.4-19.3 2 2.9 0.6-13.0
45+ 251 196 78.0 71.7-83.3 47 18.5 13.8-24.4 8 3.5 1.5- 8.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 78 53 76.6 64.3-85.6 19 18.1 10.5-29.2 6 5.4 1.9-14.1
Some College + 266 220 82.7 76.9-87.4 40 14.1 10.1-19.2 6 3.2 1.2- 8.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 97 71 78.6 68.2-86.2 21 17.1 10.5-26.6 5 4.4 1.5-12.1
$50,000+ 198 167 83.5 76.5-88.7 27 13.2 8.9-19.0 4 3.4 1.0-10.3

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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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