2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

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 3 581 230 38.4 34.0-43.0 351 61.6 57.0-66.0
GENDER
Male 280 127 46.5 40.0-53.1 153 53.5 46.9-60.0
Female 301 103 31.4 25.8-37.6 198 68.6 62.4-74.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 352 154 41.0 35.4-46.9 198 59.0 53.1-64.6
Non-Hispanic Black 119 39 32.7 24.0-42.6 80 67.3 57.4-76.0
Other 110 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 220 73 34.5 27.9-41.7 147 65.5 58.3-72.1
45-64 204 80 40.9 33.5-48.7 124 59.1 51.3-66.5
65+ 146 76 47.3 38.2-56.6 70 52.7 43.4-61.8
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 174 79 46.1 37.9-54.6 95 53.9 45.4-62.1
Some Post-H.S. 166 69 40.4 32.4-48.8 97 59.6 51.2-67.6
College Graduate 241 82 28.6 22.9-35.0 159 71.4 65.0-77.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 209 95 44.8 37.2-52.6 114 55.2 47.4-62.8
$50,000+ 250 92 37.2 30.7-44.1 158 62.8 55.9-69.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 122 43 30.4 21.9-40.5 79 69.6 59.5-78.1

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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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