2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 851 301 35.7 31.9-39.6 550 64.3 60.4-68.1
GENDER
Male 398 175 44.6 39.1-50.3 223 55.4 49.7-60.9
Female 453 126 27.9 23.1-33.2 327 72.1 66.8-76.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 519 212 40.4 35.6-45.4 307 59.6 54.6-64.4
Non-Hispanic Black 195 59 32.3 25.0-40.7 136 67.7 59.3-75.0
Other 137 30 20.2 13.5-29.0 107 79.8 71.0-86.5
AGE
18-44 343 92 28.3 23.2-34.1 251 71.7 65.9-76.8
45-64 282 113 40.2 33.9-46.8 169 59.8 53.2-66.1
65+ 210 93 47.6 39.0-56.4 117 52.4 43.6-61.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 262 112 44.2 37.2-51.3 150 55.8 48.7-62.8
Some Post-H.S. 183 76 37.2 29.6-45.5 107 62.8 54.5-70.4
College Graduate 405 112 26.6 22.2-31.6 293 73.4 68.4-77.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 303 127 43.1 36.5-49.9 176 56.9 50.1-63.5
$50,000+ 383 124 34.0 28.8-39.7 259 66.0 60.3-71.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 165 50 27.4 20.1-36.1 115 72.6 63.9-79.9

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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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