2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 901 333 37.8 34.2-41.5 568 62.2 58.5-65.8
GENDER
Male 413 176 42.2 36.9-47.8 237 57.8 52.2-63.1
Female 488 157 33.6 28.9-38.8 331 66.4 61.2-71.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 602 246 43.4 39.0-48.0 356 56.6 52.0-61.0
Non-Hispanic Black 161 49 31.8 23.6-41.3 112 68.2 58.7-76.4
Other 138 38 22.1 15.7-30.2 100 77.9 69.8-84.3
AGE
18-44 327 88 28.6 23.2-34.6 239 71.4 65.4-76.8
45-64 311 124 42.7 36.7-49.0 187 57.3 51.0-63.3
65+ 238 109 49.7 42.1-57.2 129 50.3 42.8-57.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 304 135 42.5 36.2-49.1 169 57.5 50.9-63.8
Some Post-H.S. 244 111 45.4 38.6-52.4 133 54.6 47.6-61.4
College Graduate 350 86 22.3 18.0-27.3 264 77.7 72.7-82.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 310 146 50.5 44.0-57.0 164 49.5 43.0-56.0
$50,000+ 405 121 29.5 24.8-34.8 284 70.5 65.2-75.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 186 66 33.2 26.0-41.3 120 66.8 58.7-74.0

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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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