2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 897 371 41.6 37.7-45.5 526 58.4 54.5-62.3
GENDER
Male 411 204 48.9 43.1-54.8 207 51.1 45.2-56.9
Female 486 167 34.9 30.0-40.1 319 65.1 59.9-70.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 637 296 48.7 44.1-53.3 341 51.3 46.7-55.9
Non-Hispanic Black 141 40 26.3 18.6-35.9 101 73.7 64.1-81.4
Other 119 35 24.0 16.2-34.0 84 76.0 66.0-83.8
AGE
18-44 277 89 32.5 26.5-39.1 188 67.5 60.9-73.5
45-64 312 144 50.4 44.2-56.7 168 49.6 43.3-55.8
65+ 291 132 46.6 39.6-53.8 159 53.4 46.2-60.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 305 151 50.9 44.3-57.6 154 49.1 42.4-55.7
Some Post-H.S. 275 133 43.7 37.0-50.5 142 56.3 49.5-63.0
College Graduate 316 87 25.3 20.2-31.1 229 74.7 68.9-79.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 389 181 44.8 38.7-51.1 208 55.2 48.9-61.3
$50,000+ 327 126 40.6 34.6-46.9 201 59.4 53.1-65.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 181 64 36.5 28.6-45.3 117 63.5 54.7-71.4

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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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