2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 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 8 437 318 72.3 66.8-77.2 119 27.7 22.8-33.2
GENDER
Male 201 137 67.9 59.2-75.5 64 32.1 24.5-40.8
Female 236 181 76.3 69.2-82.1 55 23.7 17.9-30.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 282 214 73.4 66.8-79.1 68 26.6 20.9-33.2
Non-Hispanic Black 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 89 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 126 81 65.8 55.4-74.9 45 34.2 25.1-44.6
45-64 147 105 72.5 63.6-80.0 42 27.5 20.0-36.4
65+ 157 125 80.4 70.7-87.5 32 19.6 12.5-29.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 167 106 62.8 53.2-71.4 61 37.2 28.6-46.8
Some Post-H.S. 144 101 73.4 64.3-80.8 43 26.6 19.2-35.7
College Graduate 125 110 88.4 80.2-93.5 15 11.6 6.5-19.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 226 147 65.5 57.4-72.7 79 34.5 27.3-42.6
$50,000+ 128 107 82.3 72.8-88.9 21 17.7 11.1-27.2
Don't know/Not Sure 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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