2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Secondhand Smoke

On how many of the past 7 days, did anyone smoke in your home while you were there?

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  Total
Respond.^
1-6 days All 7 days No days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,791 99 2.9 2.2- 3.8 283 8.4 7.3- 9.8 3,409 88.7 87.2-90.0
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 679 15 4.0 1.9- 8.0 62 12.4 9.0-16.8 602 83.6 78.5-87.7
Region 3 & 5 726 15 2.8 1.5- 5.1 54 8.7 6.4-11.6 657 88.6 85.2-91.2
Region 4 413 11 2.1 1.1- 4.3 28 8.2 5.5-12.0 374 89.7 85.7-92.7
Region 6 & 7 763 25 3.3 2.0- 5.3 53 7.4 5.2-10.4 685 89.3 86.0-91.9
Region 8 584 15 2.7 1.5- 5.0 43 7.0 4.9- 9.9 526 90.3 87.0-92.9
Region 9 & 10 628 18 2.6 1.5- 4.5 43 8.0 5.4-11.6 567 89.4 85.6-92.3
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,586 47 3.2 2.2- 4.6 117 8.1 6.3-10.4 1,422 88.7 86.2-90.8
Piedmont 1,411 34 2.4 1.6- 3.7 93 7.4 5.9- 9.3 1,284 90.2 88.1-91.9
Western NC 796 18 4.1 2.1- 7.5 73 13.2 9.8-17.4 705 82.8 78.0-86.7
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 605 13 3.8 1.7- 8.4 55 12.9 9.2-17.8 537 83.3 77.8-87.7
Northwest 524 12 3.1 1.6- 6.0 49 11.9 8.7-16.1 463 85.0 80.4-88.6
Charlotte 317 *** *** *** 20 7.5 4.7-11.7 287 90.1 85.6-93.3
Greensboro 294 *** *** *** 18 7.2 4.2-12.0 271 90.4 84.9-94.0
Southern Regional 560 17 3.3 1.8- 6.1 49 7.2 5.1-10.2 494 89.4 85.7-92.2
Southeast 245 *** *** *** *** *** *** 229 94.0 90.0-96.5
Wake 460 11 2.7 1.3- 5.2 25 6.4 4.0-10.0 424 91.0 87.0-93.8
Area L & Eastern 788 23 2.8 1.7- 4.8 59 9.1 6.5-12.6 706 88.0 84.4-91.0

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2017 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2017 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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