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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 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
-Rowan County 403 291 79.3 74.4-83.4 78 15.6 11.9-20.0 34 5.1 3.5- 7.6
GENDER
Male 142 94 76.7 68.0-83.6 39 20.1 13.8-28.5 9 3.2 1.5- 6.5
Female 261 197 81.2 75.2-86.1 39 12.2 8.3-17.6 25 6.6 4.1-10.4
RACE
White 355 251 77.3 72.2-81.7 73 17.3 13.4-22.1 31 5.3 3.6- 7.9
Other 46 38 86.9 71.0-94.7 5 8.7 2.7-24.6 3 4.4 1.2-15.2
AGE
18-44 96 79 87.2 78.5-92.7 15 11.1 6.1-19.5 2 1.7 0.4- 6.9
45+ 304 211 73.2 67.7-78.2 61 18.6 14.4-23.6 32 8.2 5.6-11.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 193 139 80.2 72.4-86.1 36 14.7 9.5-21.9 18 5.2 2.9- 9.1
Some College + 210 152 78.4 71.9-83.8 42 16.5 11.8-22.5 16 5.1 3.0- 8.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 208 146 75.9 68.1-82.3 45 19.2 13.4-26.7 17 4.9 2.7- 8.8
$50,000+ 125 93 79.8 71.6-86.0 25 15.8 10.4-23.4 7 4.4 2.0- 9.3

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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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