2017 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina 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 4,741 2,078 43.1 41.3-45.0 2,663 56.9 55.0-58.7
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 793 390 51.4 46.2-56.6 403 48.6 43.4-53.8
Region 3 & 5 887 354 39.6 35.8-43.5 533 60.4 56.5-64.2
Region 4 664 268 41.0 36.7-45.4 396 59.0 54.6-63.3
Region 6 & 7 978 402 42.9 39.0-47.0 576 57.1 53.0-61.0
Region 8 705 337 48.5 43.8-53.2 368 51.5 46.8-56.2
Region 9 & 10 716 327 44.4 39.7-49.2 389 55.6 50.8-60.3
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 1,895 878 47.4 44.4-50.5 1,017 52.6 49.5-55.6
Piedmont 1,923 744 39.5 36.9-42.2 1,179 60.5 57.8-63.1
Western NC 925 456 51.2 46.6-55.9 469 48.8 44.1-53.4
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 709 352 52.4 47.0-57.7 357 47.6 42.3-53.0
Northwest 607 290 50.8 45.7-55.9 317 49.2 44.1-54.3
Charlotte 544 209 37.5 32.9-42.4 335 62.5 57.6-67.1
Greensboro 364 137 36.8 31.0-43.1 227 63.2 56.9-69.0
Southern Regional 683 328 47.1 41.6-52.6 355 52.9 47.4-58.4
Southeast 299 146 51.6 45.0-58.2 153 48.4 41.8-55.0
Wake 609 203 35.8 31.2-40.6 406 64.2 59.4-68.8
Area L & Eastern 928 413 44.7 40.2-49.2 515 55.3 50.8-59.8

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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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