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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 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
-Wake County 549 425 79.1 74.3-83.2 99 16.2 12.6-20.5 25 4.8 2.8- 7.8
GENDER
Male 206 151 77.3 69.1-83.8 47 18.7 12.9-26.4 8 4.0 1.8- 8.8
Female 343 274 80.9 75.2-85.5 52 13.6 10.0-18.3 17 5.5 2.8-10.4
RACE
White 427 326 76.9 71.2-81.7 82 18.8 14.4-24.2 19 4.3 2.3- 7.9
Other 117 94 83.8 74.2-90.3 17 10.1 5.6-17.6 6 6.0 2.4-14.3
AGE
18-44 199 165 83.4 75.9-88.8 29 13.2 8.5-20.0 5 3.4 1.3- 9.0
45+ 342 253 72.9 67.1-78.0 70 20.6 16.2-26.0 19 6.5 3.9-10.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 109 75 78.8 67.0-87.2 24 13.5 7.7-22.4 10 7.7 3.1-18.0
Some College + 440 350 79.1 73.8-83.6 75 17.0 12.9-22.1 15 3.8 2.1- 7.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 159 111 77.5 68.7-84.4 38 17.8 11.9-25.8 10 4.7 2.3- 9.5
$50,000+ 317 261 78.9 72.2-84.3 48 16.7 11.9-22.8 8 4.4 2.0- 9.6

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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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