2020 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 726 306 40.6 36.3-45.0 420 59.4 55.0-63.7
GENDER
Male 342 160 46.2 39.9-52.6 182 53.8 47.4-60.1
Female 384 146 34.9 29.3-40.8 238 65.1 59.2-70.7
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 483 232 47.8 42.5-53.2 251 52.2 46.8-57.5
Non-Hispanic Black 160 51 31.4 23.4-40.7 109 68.6 59.3-76.6
Other 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 218 74 32.9 26.3-40.2 144 67.1 59.8-73.7
45-64 268 122 46.1 39.3-53.0 146 53.9 47.0-60.7
65+ 234 108 47.4 39.4-55.5 126 52.6 44.5-60.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 290 143 47.5 40.8-54.3 147 52.5 45.7-59.2
Some Post-H.S. 211 92 39.1 31.7-47.0 119 60.9 53.0-68.3
College Graduate 222 69 26.8 20.7-34.0 153 73.2 66.0-79.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 305 144 47.8 40.9-54.7 161 52.2 45.3-59.1
$50,000+ 266 101 34.5 28.1-41.4 165 65.5 58.6-71.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 155 61 36.0 27.5-45.4 94 64.0 54.6-72.5

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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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