2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Secondhand Smoke

On how many of the past 7 days, did you smell tobacco smoke from someone else's cigarette,
cigar, or pipe drifting into your home from nearby apartments or from outside?

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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 3,770 175 4.5 3.7- 5.5 133 3.9 3.1- 4.9 3,462 91.6 90.3-92.7
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 674 27 4.8 2.7- 8.5 28 4.3 2.5- 7.3 619 90.9 86.7-93.8
Region 3 & 5 721 35 5.1 3.4- 7.6 23 3.8 2.3- 6.0 663 91.1 88.1-93.4
Region 4 410 18 3.6 2.1- 6.0 18 4.4 2.6- 7.4 374 92.0 88.5-94.4
Region 6 & 7 760 44 4.5 3.0- 6.8 24 3.9 2.4- 6.5 692 91.5 88.5-93.8
Region 8 580 25 4.6 2.8- 7.4 20 3.1 1.7- 5.5 535 92.4 89.0-94.7
Region 9 & 10 627 26 4.6 2.9- 7.2 20 3.1 1.8- 5.3 581 92.3 89.2-94.6
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,580 73 4.9 3.6- 6.8 54 3.7 2.5- 5.6 1,453 91.3 89.0-93.2
Piedmont 1,402 69 4.1 3.1- 5.5 48 3.9 2.8- 5.4 1,285 91.9 90.1-93.5
Western NC 790 33 5.1 3.2- 8.2 31 4.0 2.5- 6.5 726 90.8 87.3-93.5
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 602 26 5.4 3.0- 9.8 27 4.6 2.7- 7.8 549 89.9 85.3-93.3
Northwest 518 19 3.4 2.0- 5.7 19 4.1 2.4- 6.8 480 92.5 89.3-94.8
Charlotte 314 15 3.7 2.0- 6.7 13 4.5 2.5- 8.1 286 91.7 87.6-94.6
Greensboro 292 11 4.3 2.1- 8.5 *** *** *** 272 91.0 85.6-94.5
Southern Regional 557 34 6.5 4.3- 9.5 21 3.4 2.0- 5.9 502 90.1 86.5-92.8
Southeast 242 *** *** *** *** *** *** 224 92.6 87.4-95.7
Wake 459 28 4.8 3.1- 7.5 12 3.7 1.9- 7.1 419 91.5 87.7-94.2
Area L & Eastern 788 32 4.7 2.8- 7.9 24 2.7 1.6- 4.4 732 92.6 89.3-94.9

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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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