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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Union 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
-Union County 338 251 77.9 71.9-82.9 70 18.1 13.5-23.8 17 4.0 2.3- 7.1
GENDER
Male 105 73 70.5 58.7-80.1 27 25.3 16.3-37.0 5 4.2 1.4-11.6
Female 233 178 82.2 75.9-87.2 43 13.8 9.6-19.6 12 3.9 2.0- 7.6
RACE
White 293 211 76.1 69.6-81.6 66 19.5 14.6-25.6 16 4.4 2.4- 7.9
Other 45 40 85.4 65.3-94.8 4 12.0 3.6-32.8 1 2.6 0.4-16.6
AGE
18-44 128 100 78.7 68.9-86.0 23 17.7 11.0-27.2 5 3.6 1.3- 9.1
45+ 207 149 76.9 69.9-82.6 47 18.7 13.6-25.1 11 4.5 2.3- 8.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 114 80 71.4 59.0-81.2 27 23.7 14.5-36.3 7 4.9 2.0-11.4
Some College + 224 171 80.9 74.3-86.2 43 15.4 10.9-21.5 10 3.6 1.7- 7.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 130 98 75.5 63.5-84.5 26 21.0 12.4-33.2 6 3.6 1.3- 9.2
$50,000+ 168 122 77.0 69.0-83.5 38 18.3 12.7-25.5 8 4.7 2.1-10.1

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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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