2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Secondhand Smoke

Workplace Secondhand Smoke Exposure Indicator for Healthy North Carolina 2020*

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  Total
Respond.^		 1-7 days No days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,711 146 9.6 7.9-11.5 1,565 90.4 88.5-92.1
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 276 23 13.0 7.2-22.4 253 87.0 77.6-92.8
Region 3 155 13 8.4 4.5-15.1 142 91.6 84.9-95.5
Region 4 249 21 9.1 5.8-14.1 228 90.9 85.9-94.2
Region 5 210 *** *** *** 201 95.4 91.2-97.7
Region 6 153 11 8.2 4.5-14.7 142 91.8 85.3-95.5
Region 7 247 16 6.3 3.7-10.4 231 93.7 89.6-96.3
Region 8 186 29 18.2 11.4-27.8 157 81.8 72.2-88.6
Region 9 & 10 237 25 14.5 9.3-22.0 212 85.5 78.0-90.7
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 593 65 13.5 10.1-17.7 528 86.5 82.3-89.9
Piedmont 800 57 7.2 5.5- 9.5 743 92.8 90.5-94.5
Western NC 320 25 11.8 6.8-19.6 295 88.2 80.4-93.2
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 240 17 6.8 3.7-12.2 223 93.2 87.8-96.3
Northwest 248 22 10.6 6.5-17.0 226 89.4 83.0-93.5
Charlotte 198 18 9.6 5.9-15.4 180 90.4 84.6-94.1
Greensboro 175 *** *** *** 165 94.5 89.7-97.1
Southern Regional 196 18 10.7 6.5-17.2 178 89.3 82.8-93.5
Southeast 95 16 18.4 10.8-29.6 79 81.6 70.4-89.2
Wake 266 14 5.0 2.8- 8.6 252 95.0 91.4-97.2
Area L & Eastern 295 32 14.7 9.4-22.2 263 85.3 77.8-90.6
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 276 23 13.0 7.2-22.4 253 87.0 77.6-92.8
Region 2 250 15 6.1 3.5-10.6 235 93.9 89.4-96.5
Region 3 255 21 9.1 5.7-14.0 234 90.9 86.0-94.3
Region 4 352 23 6.4 4.2- 9.7 329 93.6 90.3-95.8
Region 5 302 34 12.3 8.6-17.2 268 87.7 82.8-91.4
Region 6 278 31 15.7 10.0-23.8 247 84.3 76.2-90.0

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*Asked of respondents that were employed or self-employed.

See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.

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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