2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 7 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 7 489 405 81.9 77.4-85.6 84 18.1 14.4-22.6
GENDER
Male 226 173 73.2 65.7-79.6 53 26.8 20.4-34.3
Female 263 232 88.8 83.7-92.5 31 11.2 7.5-16.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 286 234 80.4 74.3-85.3 52 19.6 14.7-25.7
Non-Hispanic Black 123 100 81.6 72.6-88.2 23 18.4 11.8-27.4
Other 80 71 89.3 79.3-94.8 *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 171 136 79.0 70.9-85.3 35 21.0 14.7-29.1
45-64 189 157 83.6 76.7-88.7 32 16.4 11.3-23.3
65+ 118 102 83.4 73.5-90.2 16 16.6 9.8-26.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 168 129 75.3 66.9-82.1 39 24.7 17.9-33.1
Some Post-H.S. 103 78 78.3 67.6-86.1 25 21.7 13.9-32.4
College Graduate 217 197 91.1 86.2-94.4 20 8.9 5.6-13.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 177 130 71.3 62.7-78.6 47 28.7 21.4-37.3
$50,000+ 209 186 88.3 82.5-92.4 23 11.7 7.6-17.5
Don't know/Not Sure 103 89 85.5 74.2-92.4 14 14.5 7.6-25.8

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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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