2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 3 Demographics

Tobacco Use

Use of Any Tobacco Product*

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  Total
Respond.^		 No Use Use at least 1 Product
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,919 3,055 76.2 74.4-77.9 864 23.8 22.1-25.6
Region 3 352 278 77.3 71.4-82.3 74 22.7 17.7-28.6
GENDER
Male 165 121 70.9 61.3-79.0 44 29.1 21.0-38.7
Female 187 157 83.0 75.6-88.5 30 17.0 11.5-24.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 279 217 75.6 68.7-81.4 62 24.4 18.6-31.3
Non-Hispanic Black 37 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 36 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 98 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 131 103 77.4 68.2-84.5 28 22.6 15.5-31.8
65+ 119 99 85.2 76.3-91.1 20 14.8 8.9-23.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 135 101 73.5 63.4-81.7 34 26.5 18.3-36.6
Some Post-H.S. 103 73 71.8 60.8-80.7 30 28.2 19.3-39.2
College Graduate 113 103 91.7 82.5-96.3 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 145 105 72.3 62.9-80.1 40 27.7 19.9-37.1
$50,000+ 136 114 83.7 74.6-89.9 22 16.3 10.1-25.4
Don't know/Not Sure 71 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*Current use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, cigars, or hookah.
This table only includes respondents who were asked the state-added questions on other tobacco products.

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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