2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 5,594 2,300 40.3 38.8-42.0 3,294 59.7 58.0-61.2
Medicaid Region 1 663 319 52.4 47.8-57.0 344 47.6 43.0-52.2
GENDER
Male 290 151 58.7 52.2-65.0 139 41.3 35.0-47.8
Female 373 168 46.5 40.3-52.9 205 53.5 47.1-59.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 547 284 53.6 48.6-58.5 263 46.4 41.5-51.4
Non-Hispanic Black 24 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 92 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 205 87 47.2 39.3-55.2 118 52.8 44.8-60.7
45-64 212 106 54.5 46.2-62.6 106 45.5 37.4-53.8
65+ 231 120 56.4 48.7-63.9 111 43.6 36.1-51.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 254 137 57.3 49.7-64.5 117 42.7 35.5-50.3
Some Post-H.S. 183 98 55.9 47.7-63.8 85 44.1 36.2-52.3
College Graduate 224 84 37.9 31.1-45.2 140 62.1 54.8-68.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 313 170 56.7 49.6-63.6 143 43.3 36.4-50.4
$50,000+ 230 102 50.9 43.5-58.4 128 49.1 41.6-56.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 120 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2020 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2020 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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