2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

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 2 638 264 41.6 37.2-46.1 374 58.4 53.9-62.8
GENDER
Male 292 138 45.7 39.1-52.4 154 54.3 47.6-60.9
Female 346 126 38.0 32.2-44.1 220 62.0 55.9-67.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 466 207 46.4 41.1-51.7 259 53.6 48.3-58.9
Non-Hispanic Black 108 38 34.1 24.8-44.9 70 65.9 55.1-75.2
Other 64 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 205 63 33.3 26.3-41.2 142 66.7 58.8-73.7
45-64 227 96 44.9 37.8-52.1 131 55.1 47.9-62.2
65+ 196 102 52.7 44.4-60.9 94 47.3 39.1-55.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 229 116 48.1 40.7-55.7 113 51.9 44.3-59.3
Some Post-H.S. 187 95 49.0 41.0-57.1 92 51.0 42.9-59.0
College Graduate 219 52 22.3 16.6-29.2 167 77.7 70.8-83.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 266 132 48.8 41.9-55.8 134 51.2 44.2-58.1
$50,000+ 245 82 35.8 29.1-43.1 163 64.2 56.9-70.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 127 50 38.1 28.6-48.5 77 61.9 51.5-71.4

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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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