2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Respiratory Health

Over your lifetime, how many years have you smoked tobacco products?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 1 to 7 years 8 to 15 years 16 to 29 years 30 or more years
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 1,668 433 29.7 26.9-32.6 404 25.4 22.8-28.2 365 20.0 17.7-22.4 466 25.0 22.4-27.8
GENDER
Male 874 241 32.3 28.5-36.4 205 24.9 21.5-28.7 197 20.4 17.4-23.8 231 22.3 19.0-26.0
Female 794 192 26.4 22.6-30.6 199 26.0 22.2-30.1 168 19.4 16.2-23.1 235 28.2 24.2-32.6
Have Health Insurance
Yes 1,413 361 29.1 26.2-32.3 333 24.6 21.9-27.7 306 19.7 17.3-22.4 413 26.5 23.6-29.6
No 253 71 31.9 25.1-39.7 71 29.6 23.1-37.0 58 21.2 15.8-28.0 53 17.3 12.3-23.7
Body Mass Index
Underweight 35 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 451 114 30.8 25.5-36.6 112 26.6 21.6-32.3 86 17.2 13.5-21.8 139 25.4 20.5-31.0
Overweight 563 158 30.7 26.1-35.7 124 22.5 18.5-27.1 117 19.0 15.3-23.5 164 27.8 23.1-33.0
Obese 534 127 25.9 21.3-31.0 141 28.5 23.9-33.6 133 22.7 18.6-27.3 133 23.0 18.7-27.8
Current Smoker
Yes 592 61 13.6 10.3-17.8 130 27.0 22.6-32.0 135 21.4 17.6-25.8 266 38.0 33.0-43.2
No 1,060 361 38.7 35.0-42.5 273 24.8 21.6-28.2 228 19.3 16.6-22.3 198 17.2 14.5-20.3
History of CVD**
Yes 312 40 11.7 8.0-16.9 63 22.6 16.9-29.5 63 17.4 12.9-23.0 146 48.3 40.8-56.0
No 1,344 393 33.3 30.2-36.6 337 25.7 22.9-28.8 297 20.3 17.8-23.1 317 20.7 18.1-23.5
Binge Drinker
Yes 274 87 35.0 28.3-42.5 80 33.1 26.4-40.6 51 15.2 11.0-20.6 56 16.7 11.8-23.0
No 1,315 327 28.1 25.1-31.3 303 23.3 20.5-26.4 297 21.1 18.5-23.9 388 27.5 24.4-30.8
Heavy Drinker
Yes 127 *** *** *** 37 27.7 19.3-38.1 24 13.9 8.6-21.7 27 17.9 10.6-28.6
No 1,456 374 28.3 25.4-31.4 343 24.8 22.1-27.8 323 20.8 18.4-23.5 416 26.0 23.2-29.1
COPD
Yes 273 19 6.7 3.9-11.1 40 18.4 12.7-25.9 54 18.6 13.5-24.9 160 56.4 48.5-64.1
No 1,389 413 33.8 30.7-37.1 363 26.6 23.8-29.7 309 20.2 17.7-22.9 304 19.4 16.8-22.2
Current Asthma
Yes 182 37 22.1 15.1-31.2 33 21.5 14.5-30.7 39 21.4 14.5-30.5 73 35.0 26.2-44.9
No 1,473 393 30.4 27.5-33.6 369 26.0 23.2-28.9 321 19.8 17.5-22.4 390 23.8 21.1-26.7
Diabetes
Yes 288 48 18.7 13.5-25.3 63 21.4 16.0-28.0 68 19.2 14.2-25.4 109 40.8 33.2-48.8
No 1,380 385 31.6 28.6-34.9 341 26.1 23.3-29.2 297 20.1 17.7-22.8 357 22.1 19.4-25.0
Functional Disability
Yes 688 127 20.5 16.7-24.8 138 22.1 18.3-26.4 171 22.0 18.4-26.1 252 35.4 30.8-40.3
No 973 304 35.4 31.7-39.3 263 27.2 23.8-30.9 193 18.8 16.0-22.0 213 18.6 15.6-21.9
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 714 102 15.9 12.6-19.9 142 20.5 16.9-24.7 187 25.0 21.1-29.3 283 38.6 34.0-43.5
No 954 331 38.0 34.3-42.0 262 28.4 24.9-32.1 178 17.0 14.3-20.0 183 16.6 13.8-20.0

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*Includes only people that smoked one year or more.

**History of cardiovascular disease includes history of heart attack or coronary heart disease or stroke.

†Chronic diseases include heart disease (heart attack/stoke/angina), current asthma, skin cancer, other cancer, COPD, arthritis, depression, kidney disease and diabetes.

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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