2019 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

E-Cigarettes

Have you ever used an e-cigarette or other electronic vaping product, even just one time, in your entire life?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 3,190 604 22.3 20.6-24.1 2,586 77.7 75.9-79.4
GENDER
Male 1,453 320 26.1 23.4-29.0 1,133 73.9 71.0-76.6
Female 1,737 284 18.9 16.6-21.3 1,453 81.1 78.7-83.4
Have Health Insurance
Yes 2,777 468 19.8 18.0-21.7 2,309 80.2 78.3-82.0
No 407 135 36.8 31.4-42.5 272 63.2 57.5-68.6
Body Mass Index
Underweight 47 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 784 174 27.3 23.6-31.3 610 72.7 68.7-76.4
Overweight 1,078 190 21.5 18.6-24.8 888 78.5 75.2-81.4
Obese 1,044 198 20.7 17.8-23.8 846 79.3 76.2-82.2
Current Smoker
Yes 520 281 55.8 50.6-60.8 239 44.2 39.2-49.4
No 2,648 317 14.9 13.3-16.7 2,331 85.1 83.3-86.7
History of CVD**
Yes 404 71 17.2 13.4-21.7 333 82.8 78.3-86.6
No 2,754 528 23.0 21.1-25.0 2,226 77.0 75.0-78.9
Binge Drinker
Yes 363 135 42.1 36.3-48.2 228 57.9 51.8-63.7
No 2,694 443 19.5 17.7-21.4 2,251 80.5 78.6-82.3
COPD
Yes 288 87 34.3 27.8-41.5 201 65.7 58.5-72.2
No 2,892 513 21.2 19.4-23.1 2,379 78.8 76.9-80.6
Current Asthma
Yes 284 63 24.2 18.5-31.0 221 75.8 69.0-81.5
No 2,896 537 22.0 20.2-24.0 2,359 78.0 76.0-79.8
Functional Disability
Yes 1,097 235 25.1 22.0-28.4 862 74.9 71.6-78.0
No 2,071 366 21.1 19.0-23.3 1,705 78.9 76.7-81.0
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,066 186 19.6 16.8-22.7 880 80.4 77.3-83.2
No 2,124 418 23.4 21.3-25.7 1,706 76.6 74.3-78.7

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**History of cardiovascular disease includes history of heart attack or coronary heart disease or stroke.

†Chronic diseases include heart disease (heart attack/stoke/angina), current asthma, skin cancer, other cancer, COPD, arthritis, depression, kidney disease and diabetes.

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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