2012 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Counties and Regions

Tobacco Use

Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your entire life?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 11,737 5,530 46.5 45.3-47.6 6,207 53.5 52.4-54.7
COUNTY/REGIONS
Buncombe 390 176 46.3 40.1-52.6 214 53.7 47.4-59.9
Cumberland 442 212 45.0 39.3-50.8 230 55.0 49.2-60.7
Durham 454 159 32.6 27.3-38.3 295 67.4 61.7-72.7
Forsyth 420 207 53.5 47.2-59.6 213 46.5 40.4-52.8
Gaston 367 199 53.1 45.9-60.2 168 46.9 39.8-54.1
Guilford 506 221 42.1 36.8-47.5 285 57.9 52.5-63.2
Mecklenburg 674 315 44.8 40.3-49.5 359 55.2 50.5-59.7
New Hanover 393 193 45.9 39.0-53.1 200 54.1 46.9-61.0
Union 385 161 40.8 33.8-48.2 224 59.2 51.8-66.2
Wake 686 277 38.1 33.8-42.6 409 61.9 57.4-66.2
NC REGIONS
Eastern NC 3,856 1,871 48.2 46.1-50.2 1,985 51.8 49.8-53.9
Piedmont 6,284 2,879 45.0 43.4-46.6 3,405 55.0 53.4-56.6
Western NC 1,597 780 49.3 46.1-52.5 817 50.7 47.5-53.9
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 1,096 518 46.8 42.9-50.9 578 53.2 49.1-57.1
Northwest 1,883 926 50.6 47.7-53.4 957 49.4 46.6-52.3
Charlotte 1,922 914 45.7 42.6-48.8 1,008 54.3 51.2-57.4
Greensboro 1,328 613 46.6 43.1-50.0 715 53.4 50.0-56.9
Southern Regional 1,530 751 46.5 43.1-50.0 779 53.5 50.0-56.9
Southeast 733 347 45.8 40.9-50.7 386 54.2 49.3-59.1
Wake 1,658 696 40.4 37.3-43.5 962 59.6 56.5-62.7
Area L 390 185 49.4 43.1-55.6 205 50.6 44.4-56.9
Eastern 1,197 580 50.0 46.5-53.5 617 50.0 46.5-53.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2012 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2012 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^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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