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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Wake 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
-Wake County 548 425 76.9 71.4-81.6 107 19.7 15.4-24.9 16 3.4 1.7- 6.9
GENDER
Male 204 150 74.0 64.3-81.8 49 22.4 15.3-31.6 5 3.6 1.1-11.5
Female 344 275 79.8 74.0-84.5 58 17.0 12.6-22.5 11 3.3 1.6- 6.4
RACE
White 427 328 75.4 69.4-80.5 87 20.8 16.2-26.3 12 3.8 1.6- 8.7
Other 116 93 80.4 66.7-89.4 19 17.1 8.6-31.1 4 2.5 0.8- 8.0
AGE
18-44 200 155 76.3 67.4-83.3 41 20.5 14.1-29.0 4 3.2 1.0-10.0
45+ 340 262 77.5 72.1-82.1 66 18.8 14.6-23.8 12 3.8 1.9- 7.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 110 72 69.4 53.3-81.8 31 24.1 13.4-39.4 7 6.6 1.8-21.4
Some College + 438 353 79.3 73.9-83.8 76 18.3 14.0-23.6 9 2.4 1.2- 5.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 158 108 72.4 60.2-81.9 45 25.8 16.4-38.1 5 1.8 0.7- 4.4
$50,000+ 317 262 77.9 70.9-83.6 47 17.7 12.7-24.0 8 4.4 1.8-10.4

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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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