2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 5 447 361 77.0 71.7-81.5 86 23.0 18.5-28.3
GENDER
Male 186 139 70.5 62.4-77.5 47 29.5 22.5-37.6
Female 261 222 82.3 75.0-87.8 39 17.7 12.2-25.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 264 208 73.6 66.5-79.7 56 26.4 20.3-33.5
Non-Hispanic Black 127 105 81.5 72.6-88.0 22 18.5 12.0-27.4
Other 56 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 149 116 74.2 65.3-81.5 33 25.8 18.5-34.7
45-64 155 118 74.9 66.3-81.9 37 25.1 18.1-33.7
65+ 133 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 163 123 72.1 62.5-80.0 40 27.9 20.0-37.5
Some Post-H.S. 122 88 69.7 59.7-78.1 34 30.3 21.9-40.3
College Graduate 160 148 91.6 85.3-95.4 12 8.4 4.6-14.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 192 142 69.3 60.5-76.9 50 30.7 23.1-39.5
$50,000+ 170 150 83.9 75.8-89.6 20 16.1 10.4-24.2
Don't know/Not Sure 85 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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