2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 847 392 44.6 40.3-48.9 455 55.4 51.1-59.7
GENDER
Male 387 204 49.9 43.4-56.4 183 50.1 43.6-56.6
Female 460 188 39.5 33.9-45.4 272 60.5 54.6-66.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 538 274 50.3 45.0-55.6 264 49.7 44.4-55.0
Non-Hispanic Black 229 91 38.3 30.3-46.9 138 61.7 53.1-69.7
Other 80 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 260 97 37.4 30.7-44.6 163 62.6 55.4-69.3
45-64 308 155 48.1 40.9-55.4 153 51.9 44.6-59.1
65+ 268 136 55.6 48.0-63.0 132 44.4 37.0-52.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 341 175 46.6 40.0-53.4 166 53.4 46.6-60.0
Some Post-H.S. 253 126 47.4 39.8-55.1 127 52.6 44.9-60.2
College Graduate 252 91 35.0 28.3-42.3 161 65.0 57.7-71.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 419 204 48.2 42.1-54.4 215 51.8 45.6-57.9
$50,000+ 272 120 40.2 33.1-47.7 152 59.8 52.3-66.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 156 68 43.0 33.5-53.2 88 57.0 46.8-66.5

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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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