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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Rowan 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
-Rowan County 403 286 74.7 68.8-79.8 94 21.1 16.5-26.4 23 4.2 2.2- 8.1
GENDER
Male 142 88 66.7 55.7-76.1 43 26.9 18.8-36.9 11 6.4 2.4-16.0
Female 261 198 80.7 74.4-85.7 51 16.7 12.0-22.8 12 2.6 1.4- 4.9
RACE
White 355 253 74.1 68.0-79.4 81 20.8 16.2-26.2 21 5.1 2.6- 9.9
Other 46 32 77.0 59.2-88.6 12 22.1 10.8-39.9 2 0.9 0.2- 3.8
AGE
18-44 96 71 76.4 65.0-84.9 24 20.8 13.2-31.2 1 2.8 0.4-17.3
45+ 304 213 73.4 67.7-78.4 69 21.0 16.5-26.5 22 5.6 3.5- 8.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 194 132 73.3 64.3-80.7 50 23.7 16.6-32.5 12 3.0 1.6- 5.7
Some College + 209 154 76.0 68.0-82.6 44 18.5 13.2-25.2 11 5.5 2.1-13.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 207 140 70.0 61.3-77.5 59 28.3 20.9-37.1 8 1.7 0.8- 3.5
$50,000+ 125 98 78.9 68.4-86.6 22 14.6 9.3-22.0 5 6.5 1.9-20.2

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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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