2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

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 3 697 289 43.4 39.2-47.7 408 56.6 52.3-60.8
GENDER
Male 317 160 52.3 46.0-58.6 157 47.7 41.4-54.0
Female 380 129 35.4 29.9-41.3 251 64.6 58.7-70.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 459 216 50.1 44.8-55.5 243 49.9 44.5-55.2
Non-Hispanic Black 130 38 27.1 19.5-36.4 92 72.9 63.6-80.5
Other 108 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 276 96 37.2 31.1-43.8 180 62.8 56.2-68.9
45-64 232 108 49.1 41.9-56.4 124 50.9 43.6-58.1
65+ 174 81 51.4 41.6-61.2 93 48.6 38.8-58.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 235 128 55.1 47.7-62.2 107 44.9 37.8-52.3
Some Post-H.S. 213 95 44.8 37.4-52.4 118 55.2 47.6-62.6
College Graduate 245 66 23.8 18.6-29.8 179 76.2 70.2-81.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 276 145 53.6 46.8-60.2 131 46.4 39.8-53.2
$50,000+ 289 108 40.2 33.8-47.0 181 59.8 53.0-66.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 132 36 29.4 20.6-39.9 96 70.6 60.1-79.4

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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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