2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Tobacco Use

Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your entire life?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,136 1,753 42.7 40.9-44.5 2,383 57.3 55.5-59.1
Medicaid Region 1 511 244 51.4 46.2-56.7 267 48.6 43.3-53.8
GENDER
Male 260 130 53.9 46.7-61.0 130 46.1 39.0-53.3
Female 251 114 49.2 41.7-56.7 137 50.8 43.3-58.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 411 198 52.1 46.3-57.8 213 47.9 42.2-53.7
Non-Hispanic Black 40 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 60 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 154 66 48.9 40.0-57.8 88 51.1 42.2-60.0
45-64 177 93 56.1 46.8-65.1 84 43.9 34.9-53.2
65+ 173 82 50.0 40.8-59.2 91 50.0 40.8-59.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 167 99 63.3 54.2-71.6 68 36.7 28.4-45.8
Some Post-H.S. 148 80 55.7 46.2-64.8 68 44.3 35.2-53.8
College Graduate 196 65 28.6 22.4-35.7 131 71.4 64.3-77.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 227 123 60.4 52.6-67.6 104 39.6 32.4-47.4
$50,000+ 172 71 42.7 34.1-51.7 101 57.3 48.3-65.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 112 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2019 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2019 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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