2019 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

Tobacco Use

Use of Any Tobacco Product*

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  Total
Respond.^		 No Use Use at least 1 Product
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,553 2,828 77.1 75.4-78.8 725 22.9 21.2-24.6
Region 5 502 418 80.7 76.2-84.6 84 19.3 15.4-23.8
GENDER
Male 229 183 76.5 69.2-82.6 46 23.5 17.4-30.8
Female 273 235 84.6 78.7-89.1 38 15.4 10.9-21.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 292 244 79.6 73.4-84.7 48 20.4 15.3-26.6
Non-Hispanic Black 129 100 77.5 68.5-84.4 29 22.5 15.6-31.5
Other 81 74 92.3 83.6-96.6 *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 181 145 79.0 71.5-84.9 36 21.0 15.1-28.5
45-64 165 135 78.2 69.1-85.1 30 21.8 14.9-30.9
65+ 148 132 88.7 81.5-93.3 16 11.3 6.7-18.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 156 119 74.5 65.8-81.7 37 25.5 18.3-34.2
Some Post-H.S. 129 99 77.0 67.7-84.3 30 23.0 15.7-32.3
College Graduate 215 198 91.8 87.0-94.9 17 8.2 5.1-13.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 175 127 69.5 61.0-76.9 48 30.5 23.1-39.0
$50,000+ 206 183 87.4 80.8-91.9 23 12.6 8.1-19.2
Don't know/Not Sure 121 108 85.6 74.6-92.3 13 14.4 7.7-25.4

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*Current use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, cigars, or hookah.
This table only includes respondents who were asked the state-added questions on other tobacco products.

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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