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2010 BRFSS Survey Results: Wayne County

Tobacco Use Prevention

The North Carolina tax on a pack of cigarettes is currently 45 cents and the national average is $1.34 cents.
Would you favor or oppose raising North Carolina's cigarette tax to $1.34 if part of
the tax revenue was used was used to help reduce smoking?

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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 11,277 6,906 62.2 60.7-63.6 3,586 32.0 30.5-33.4 785 5.9 5.3- 6.6
-Wayne County 345 194 51.3 43.0-59.5 126 44.5 36.1-53.1 25 4.3 2.7- 6.7
GENDER
Male 110 55 41.7 30.0-54.5 47 54.7 41.8-67.1 8 3.5 1.6- 7.4
Female 235 139 60.7 51.1-69.6 79 34.2 25.6-44.0 17 5.1 2.9- 8.6
RACE
White 233 121 50.1 40.9-59.3 95 45.2 35.9-54.8 17 4.7 2.8- 7.9
Other 108 70 52.3 36.6-67.6 31 44.3 29.0-60.8 7 3.4 1.4- 8.1
AGE
18-44 72 45 45.5 31.3-60.5 26 53.6 38.5-68.0 1 0.9 0.1- 6.2
45+ 272 149 55.7 47.6-63.6 99 37.4 29.9-45.5 24 6.9 4.4-10.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 176 99 55.1 43.2-66.5 63 40.4 29.2-52.7 14 4.5 2.4- 8.2
Some College + 169 95 47.4 36.3-58.7 63 48.5 37.0-60.2 11 4.1 2.1- 7.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 175 107 64.4 54.6-73.2 58 31.9 23.5-41.6 10 3.7 1.7- 7.5
$50,000+ 99 54 48.6 34.5-62.8 40 48.2 33.8-63.0 5 3.2 1.3- 7.8

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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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