2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 557 221 39.2 34.6-43.9 336 60.8 56.1-65.4
GENDER
Male 253 125 48.6 41.5-55.7 128 51.4 44.3-58.5
Female 304 96 30.7 25.2-36.9 208 69.3 63.1-74.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 336 153 46.4 40.4-52.6 183 53.6 47.4-59.6
Non-Hispanic Black 133 47 31.6 23.7-40.6 86 68.4 59.4-76.3
Other 88 21 19.4 11.7-30.5 67 80.6 69.5-88.3
AGE
18-44 233 77 33.2 26.9-40.3 156 66.8 59.7-73.1
45-64 174 74 42.8 34.5-51.6 100 57.2 48.4-65.5
65+ 142 67 47.7 38.0-57.6 75 52.3 42.4-62.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 160 72 43.1 34.5-52.0 88 56.9 48.0-65.5
Some Post-H.S. 143 68 43.7 35.0-52.7 75 56.3 47.3-65.0
College Graduate 251 80 31.3 25.4-37.8 171 68.7 62.2-74.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 193 94 47.4 39.5-55.4 99 52.6 44.6-60.5
$50,000+ 237 88 38.5 31.7-45.8 149 61.5 54.2-68.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 127 39 27.7 19.5-37.8 88 72.3 62.2-80.5

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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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