2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

E-Cigarettes

Have you ever used an e-cigarette or other electronic vaping product, even just one time, in your entire life?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 3,780 750 22.6 20.9-24.4 3,030 77.4 75.6-79.1
GENDER
Male 1,696 385 25.2 22.7-28.0 1,311 74.8 72.0-77.3
Female 2,084 365 20.4 18.2-22.8 1,719 79.6 77.2-81.8
Have Health Insurance
Yes 3,259 598 21.1 19.3-23.0 2,661 78.9 77.0-80.7
No 517 150 31.4 26.5-36.8 367 68.6 63.2-73.5
Body Mass Index
Underweight 64 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 983 246 28.9 25.3-32.8 737 71.1 67.2-74.7
Overweight 1,254 232 21.1 18.4-24.2 1,022 78.9 75.8-81.6
Obese 1,208 220 19.7 17.0-22.7 988 80.3 77.3-83.0
Current Smoker
Yes 631 381 60.7 55.6-65.6 250 39.3 34.4-44.4
No 3,119 363 14.5 12.9-16.2 2,756 85.5 83.8-87.1
History of CVD**
Yes 520 98 19.3 15.2-24.3 422 80.7 75.7-84.8
No 3,239 647 23.0 21.2-24.9 2,592 77.0 75.1-78.8
Binge Drinker
Yes 436 178 43.3 37.6-49.2 258 56.7 50.8-62.4
No 3,166 538 19.2 17.5-21.1 2,628 80.8 78.9-82.5
Heavy Drinker
Yes 204 75 38.5 30.6-47.1 129 61.5 52.9-69.4
No 3,387 633 21.4 19.6-23.3 2,754 78.6 76.7-80.4
COPD
Yes 375 124 31.1 25.4-37.4 251 68.9 62.6-74.6
No 3,395 624 21.8 20.0-23.7 2,771 78.2 76.3-80.0
Current Asthma
Yes 352 97 26.1 20.8-32.3 255 73.9 67.7-79.2
No 3,412 645 22.1 20.3-24.0 2,767 77.9 76.0-79.7
Diabetes
Yes 600 78 13.5 10.4-17.4 522 86.5 82.6-89.6
No 3,182 672 24.1 22.2-26.1 2,510 75.9 73.9-77.8
Functional Disability
Yes 1,271 304 27.5 24.3-30.9 967 72.5 69.1-75.7
No 2,496 441 20.4 18.4-22.5 2,055 79.6 77.5-81.6
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,357 271 21.9 19.1-24.9 1,086 78.1 75.1-80.9
No 2,425 479 22.9 20.8-25.2 1,946 77.1 74.8-79.2

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**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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