2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

Tobacco Use

Use of Any Tobacco Product*

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  Total
Respond.^		 No Use Use at least 1 Product
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,248 3,460 79.3 77.6-80.8 788 20.7 19.2-22.4
Medicaid Region 3 577 469 78.9 74.6-82.7 108 21.1 17.3-25.4
GENDER
Male 266 203 72.2 65.0-78.3 63 27.8 21.7-35.0
Female 311 266 84.8 79.7-88.8 45 15.2 11.2-20.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 373 305 79.3 74.0-83.7 68 20.7 16.3-26.0
Non-Hispanic Black 106 82 74.4 63.0-83.2 *** *** ***
Other 85 70 82.3 71.0-89.8 15 17.7 10.2-29.0
AGE
18-44 205 165 76.8 69.1-83.1 40 23.2 16.9-30.9
45-64 192 147 75.5 68.2-81.7 45 24.5 18.3-31.8
65+ 161 143 89.5 82.8-93.8 18 10.5 6.2-17.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 172 123 69.7 61.0-77.2 49 30.3 22.8-39.0
Some Post-H.S. 167 131 77.8 70.0-83.9 36 22.2 16.1-30.0
College Graduate 235 212 91.1 86.5-94.2 23 8.9 5.8-13.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 166 126 71.6 62.3-79.3 40 28.4 20.7-37.7
$50,000+ 285 242 82.7 76.8-87.3 43 17.3 12.7-23.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 126 101 80.8 72.0-87.2 25 19.2 12.8-28.0

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*Current use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, cigars, or hookah.
This table only includes respondents who were asked the questions on other tobacco products.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2021 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2021 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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