2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 488 170 38.7 33.6-44.1 318 61.3 55.9-66.4
GENDER
Male 225 91 44.9 36.9-53.1 134 55.1 46.9-63.1
Female 263 79 32.7 26.6-39.6 184 67.3 60.4-73.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 301 113 39.1 33.0-45.6 188 60.9 54.4-67.0
Non-Hispanic Black 101 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 86 20 23.1 14.5-34.7 66 76.9 65.3-85.5
AGE
18-44 215 58 33.1 25.5-41.7 157 66.9 58.3-74.5
45-64 170 62 40.6 31.9-49.9 108 59.4 50.1-68.1
65+ 93 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 106 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 123 55 47.4 37.3-57.7 68 52.6 42.3-62.7
College Graduate 258 70 26.2 20.9-32.3 188 73.8 67.7-79.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 138 *** *** *** 84 58.4 48.0-68.2
$50,000+ 264 92 38.9 32.0-46.3 172 61.1 53.7-68.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 86 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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