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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Pitt 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
-Pitt County 340 245 73.8 66.9-79.7 79 23.2 17.5-30.1 16 3.0 1.7- 5.2
GENDER
Male 112 78 68.1 54.5-79.1 32 31.0 20.0-44.6 2 0.9 0.2- 4.4
Female 228 167 78.2 71.9-83.5 47 17.2 12.5-23.1 14 4.6 2.6- 8.1
RACE
White 234 158 68.1 58.8-76.2 64 28.3 20.5-37.7 12 3.6 1.8- 6.8
Other 106 87 83.9 74.2-90.5 15 14.1 7.9-23.9 4 2.0 0.7- 5.3
AGE
18-44 89 73 81.9 68.2-90.4 16 18.1 9.6-31.8 0 0.0 . - .
45+ 250 171 67.1 59.7-73.7 63 27.4 21.1-34.9 16 5.5 3.2- 9.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 119 82 74.5 62.7-83.5 26 20.7 12.6-32.2 11 4.8 2.4- 9.3
Some College + 221 163 73.4 64.6-80.7 53 24.6 17.4-33.5 5 2.0 0.8- 5.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 170 125 79.5 71.2-85.9 40 18.5 12.4-26.5 5 2.0 0.7- 5.3
$50,000+ 123 90 69.6 57.2-79.7 30 28.2 18.3-40.9 3 2.2 0.7- 6.9

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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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