2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

Tobacco Use

Use of Any Tobacco Product*

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  Total
Respond.^		 No Use Use at least 1 Product
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,919 3,055 76.2 74.4-77.9 864 23.8 22.1-25.6
Medicaid Region 6 742 579 75.8 71.5-79.7 163 24.2 20.3-28.5
GENDER
Male 330 238 70.6 63.6-76.7 92 29.4 23.3-36.4
Female 412 341 80.5 75.0-85.1 71 19.5 14.9-25.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 454 355 74.9 69.2-79.9 99 25.1 20.1-30.8
Non-Hispanic Black 217 163 73.7 65.2-80.8 54 26.3 19.2-34.8
Other 71 61 88.7 77.8-94.6 *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 200 138 69.3 61.2-76.4 62 30.7 23.6-38.8
45-64 281 211 76.1 68.9-82.0 70 23.9 18.0-31.1
65+ 251 222 85.3 77.9-90.5 29 14.7 9.5-22.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 297 211 69.8 62.7-76.1 86 30.2 23.9-37.3
Some Post-H.S. 225 176 76.8 69.0-83.1 49 23.2 16.9-31.0
College Graduate 219 191 86.7 79.9-91.5 28 13.3 8.5-20.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 371 277 70.6 63.9-76.6 94 29.4 23.4-36.1
$50,000+ 227 188 80.6 72.9-86.5 39 19.4 13.5-27.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 144 114 80.2 71.2-86.9 30 19.8 13.1-28.8

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*Current use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, cigars, or hookah.
This table only includes respondents who were asked the state-added questions on other tobacco products.

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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