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2009 BRFSS Survey Results: Wayne 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
-Wayne County 351 241 70.4 63.4-76.5 91 26.1 20.2-33.0 19 3.5 1.9- 6.4
GENDER
Male 116 75 68.2 56.1-78.3 39 30.9 21.0-43.0 2 0.8 0.2- 4.0
Female 235 166 72.3 64.2-79.2 52 21.9 15.7-29.6 17 5.8 3.0-11.0
RACE
White 219 138 65.4 55.7-74.0 68 31.8 23.4-41.5 13 2.8 1.5- 5.0
Other 131 103 78.5 68.7-85.9 22 16.9 10.5-25.9 6 4.6 1.6-12.7
AGE
18-44 101 71 73.5 61.2-83.0 25 23.4 14.4-35.5 5 3.1 1.0- 9.8
45+ 247 168 67.2 59.4-74.1 66 29.3 22.7-37.1 13 3.5 1.9- 6.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 178 121 67.8 57.0-77.0 49 28.4 19.6-39.2 8 3.8 1.4- 9.7
Some College + 173 120 73.2 64.3-80.5 42 23.7 16.7-32.4 11 3.2 1.6- 6.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 198 138 74.2 66.0-81.0 49 22.9 16.4-30.9 11 2.9 1.5- 5.5
$50,000+ 92 58 64.1 50.3-75.9 29 33.1 21.6-47.1 5 2.8 1.1- 7.2

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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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