2020 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

E-Cigarettes

Have you ever used an e-cigarette or other electronic vaping product, even just one time, in your entire life?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 4,817 901 21.9 20.4-23.4 3,916 78.1 76.6-79.6
GENDER
Male 2,143 459 25.0 22.7-27.4 1,684 75.0 72.6-77.3
Female 2,674 442 19.1 17.3-21.1 2,232 80.9 78.9-82.7
Have Health Insurance
Yes 4,167 724 20.2 18.6-21.8 3,443 79.8 78.2-81.4
No 635 176 32.4 27.8-37.3 459 67.6 62.7-72.2
Body Mass Index
Underweight 64 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 1,220 274 26.1 23.2-29.3 946 73.9 70.7-76.8
Overweight 1,588 286 21.4 18.9-24.1 1,302 78.6 75.9-81.1
Obese 1,513 280 21.1 18.5-24.0 1,233 78.9 76.0-81.5
Current Smoker
Yes 760 418 58.0 53.7-62.3 342 42.0 37.7-46.3
No 4,033 479 14.4 13.0-15.8 3,554 85.6 84.2-87.0
History of CVD**
Yes 555 93 17.6 14.0-21.9 462 82.4 78.1-86.0
No 4,221 802 22.5 20.9-24.1 3,419 77.5 75.9-79.1
Binge Drinker
Yes 546 212 41.1 36.3-46.0 334 58.9 54.0-63.7
No 4,053 655 19.0 17.5-20.7 3,398 81.0 79.3-82.5
Heavy Drinker
Yes 241 96 44.9 37.6-52.5 145 55.1 47.5-62.4
No 4,346 764 20.6 19.0-22.2 3,582 79.4 77.8-81.0
COPD
Yes 377 124 34.2 28.1-40.9 253 65.8 59.1-71.9
No 4,427 774 21.0 19.5-22.6 3,653 79.0 77.4-80.5
Current Asthma
Yes 406 104 28.0 23.0-33.6 302 72.0 66.4-77.0
No 4,387 791 21.3 19.8-23.0 3,596 78.7 77.0-80.2
Diabetes
Yes 691 99 17.3 13.7-21.6 592 82.7 78.4-86.3
No 4,116 801 22.6 21.0-24.3 3,315 77.4 75.7-79.0
Functional Disability
Yes 1,481 307 24.0 21.1-27.0 1,174 76.0 73.0-78.9
No 3,320 591 21.0 19.3-22.8 2,729 79.0 77.2-80.7
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 1,535 290 21.3 18.7-24.2 1,245 78.7 75.8-81.3
No 3,279 611 22.1 20.4-24.0 2,668 77.9 76.0-79.6

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**History of cardiovascular disease includes history of heart attack or coronary heart disease or stroke.

†Chronic diseases include heart disease (heart attack/stoke/angina), current asthma, skin cancer, other cancer, COPD, arthritis, depression, kidney disease and diabetes.

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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