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2019 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Lung Cancer Screening

On average, when you [smoke/ smoked] regularly, about how many cigarettes {do/did} you usually smoke each day?*

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  Total
Respond.^		 1 to 9 cigarettes (less than half a pack) 10 to 19 cigarettes (half a pack to less than a pack) 20 cigarettes (one pack) 21+ cigarettes (more than one pack)
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,354 346 24.4 21.9-27.2 462 36.0 32.9-39.1 372 27.4 24.7-30.3 174 12.2 10.3-14.4
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 152 34 20.0 13.4-28.7 47 33.7 25.1-43.4 50 33.9 25.4-43.5 21 12.5 7.9-19.2
Region 3 128 29 16.1 10.6-23.8 *** *** *** 41 32.4 23.1-43.4 11 6.8 3.1-14.1
Region 4 239 68 29.2 22.8-36.5 81 34.7 27.9-42.2 62 25.2 19.4-32.1 28 10.9 7.1-16.4
Region 5 191 55 26.4 20.3-33.7 54 26.7 20.5-33.9 54 29.9 22.9-37.9 28 17.0 11.4-24.5
Region 6 142 42 27.3 20.0-36.2 53 41.4 32.2-51.2 33 23.0 16.1-31.6 14 8.3 4.7-14.4
Region 7 194 52 27.2 20.7-34.9 73 38.9 31.3-47.0 44 20.6 15.2-27.3 25 13.4 8.6-20.1
Region 8 183 40 19.0 13.3-26.4 62 40.1 31.6-49.3 52 26.9 20.1-35.1 29 13.9 9.3-20.4
Region 9 & 10 125 26 22.6 15.1-32.3 45 34.0 25.1-44.2 36 31.6 23.0-41.8 18 11.7 6.9-19.2
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 475 105 21.7 17.6-26.5 175 39.2 34.0-44.5 130 27.7 23.3-32.7 65 11.4 8.7-14.8
Piedmont 687 198 27.2 23.5-31.1 226 34.1 30.0-38.4 178 26.0 22.3-30.0 85 12.8 10.1-16.1
Western NC 192 43 19.3 13.5-26.8 61 37.3 29.1-46.3 64 31.6 24.4-39.8 24 11.8 7.6-17.9
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 119 26 16.6 10.5-25.3 38 35.9 26.3-46.8 37 32.7 23.3-43.8 18 14.7 9.0-23.2
Northwest 223 53 20.1 14.8-26.7 73 38.1 30.3-46.5 77 34.6 27.5-42.5 20 7.2 4.3-11.9
Charlotte 178 52 30.4 22.9-39.0 64 36.5 28.6-45.2 39 21.0 15.0-28.6 23 12.1 7.5-19.1
Greensboro 146 41 25.5 18.7-33.8 41 26.8 19.8-35.3 41 30.2 22.3-39.5 23 17.5 11.2-26.1
Southern Regional 208 57 25.4 19.4-32.6 78 41.2 33.4-49.4 49 23.3 17.2-30.8 24 10.1 6.5-15.4
Southeast 85 17 16.0 9.5-25.8 *** *** *** *** *** *** 16 15.2 8.9-24.9
Wake 211 61 29.0 22.6-36.3 71 34.9 27.9-42.6 52 22.1 16.7-28.6 27 14.0 9.3-20.6
Area L & Eastern 184 39 24.5 17.6-33.0 69 36.4 28.7-45.0 53 29.2 22.3-37.3 23 9.8 6.0-15.7
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 191 45 20.4 14.4-28.0 62 35.2 27.2-44.0 61 33.6 25.9-42.2 23 10.8 7.0-16.4
Region 2 164 37 18.5 13.2-25.4 57 42.4 33.1-52.2 55 31.4 23.6-40.4 15 7.7 4.1-13.8
Region 3 164 49 29.4 21.9-38.1 56 34.4 26.5-43.4 37 22.7 16.1-31.0 22 13.5 8.3-21.3
Region 4 178 50 26.3 19.8-34.0 51 26.8 20.4-34.4 51 29.8 22.7-38.2 26 17.0 11.3-24.9
Region 5 190 55 24.6 18.3-32.3 68 38.2 30.1-46.9 48 27.1 20.1-35.4 19 10.2 6.1-16.5
Region 6 125 41 31.0 22.4-41.2 *** *** *** 25 16.6 10.8-24.5 18 14.6 8.7-23.5

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*Asked of respondents that have smoked in the past or are currently smoking.
Regularly is at least one cigarette or more on days that a respondent smokes (either every day or some days) or smoked (not at all).

See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.

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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