2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Secondhand Smoke

On how many of the past 7 days, did you smell tobacco smoke from someone else's cigarette,
cigar, or pipe drifting into your home from nearby apartments or from outside?

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  Total
Respond.^
1-6 days All 7 days No days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,588 158 4.7 3.9- 5.6 112 3.3 2.6- 4.1 3,318 92.1 90.9-93.1
Region 5 409 17 4.1 2.4- 7.0 13 2.4 1.3- 4.3 379 93.5 90.4-95.7
GENDER
Male 166 *** *** *** *** *** *** 158 93.9 88.0-97.0
Female 243 12 4.0 2.1- 7.5 *** *** *** 221 93.2 89.3-95.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 251 *** *** *** *** *** *** 243 96.8 93.2-98.5
Non-Hispanic Black 111 *** *** *** *** *** *** 97 89.4 81.7-94.1
Other 47 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 134 *** *** *** *** *** *** 122 92.1 86.1-95.7
45-64 148 *** *** *** *** *** *** 137 93.2 87.0-96.6
65+ 120 *** *** *** *** *** *** 115 97.3 93.0-99.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 142 *** *** *** *** *** *** 130 93.0 87.4-96.2
Some Post-H.S. 118 *** *** *** *** *** *** 107 90.8 83.1-95.2
College Graduate 148 *** *** *** *** *** *** 141 97.2 94.1-98.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 178 *** *** *** *** *** *** 162 91.5 85.9-95.1
$50,000+ 159 *** *** *** *** *** *** 152 96.2 90.9-98.5
Don't know/Not Sure 72 *** *** *** *** *** *** 65 91.9 82.6-96.5

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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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