2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 4,566 1,985 43.0 41.1-44.8 2,581 57.0 55.2-58.9
Medicaid Region 1 746 362 49.8 44.8-54.8 384 50.2 45.2-55.2
GENDER
Male 348 181 56.8 49.4-63.9 167 43.2 36.1-50.6
Female 398 181 43.0 36.6-49.7 217 57.0 50.3-63.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 646 325 51.6 46.3-57.0 321 48.4 43.0-53.7
Non-Hispanic Black 29 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 71 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 191 83 45.2 36.4-54.4 108 54.8 45.6-63.6
45-64 255 123 48.7 40.3-57.2 132 51.3 42.8-59.7
65+ 284 150 58.0 49.9-65.8 134 42.0 34.2-50.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 262 148 58.2 50.2-65.8 114 41.8 34.2-49.8
Some Post-H.S. 223 123 53.2 44.0-62.2 100 46.8 37.8-56.0
College Graduate 261 91 30.5 24.1-37.6 170 69.5 62.4-75.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 332 189 59.4 52.1-66.3 143 40.6 33.7-47.9
$50,000+ 255 101 40.0 32.2-48.4 154 60.0 51.6-67.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 159 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 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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