2021 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 4,824 1,924 39.7 38.0-41.5 2,900 60.3 58.5-62.0
Medicaid Region 3 730 284 38.7 34.8-42.9 446 61.3 57.1-65.2
GENDER
Male 351 160 47.8 41.8-54.0 191 52.2 46.0-58.2
Female 379 124 30.3 25.5-35.7 255 69.7 64.3-74.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 465 195 42.7 37.7-47.9 270 57.3 52.1-62.3
Non-Hispanic Black 129 50 40.8 31.3-51.0 79 59.2 49.0-68.7
Other 120 35 22.6 15.6-31.6 85 77.4 68.4-84.4
AGE
18-44 294 87 31.4 25.6-37.9 207 68.6 62.1-74.4
45-64 227 96 44.3 37.3-51.6 131 55.7 48.4-62.7
65+ 185 93 48.5 40.4-56.8 92 51.5 43.2-59.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 224 110 46.3 38.9-53.8 114 53.7 46.2-61.1
Some Post-H.S. 196 88 43.5 36.1-51.2 108 56.5 48.8-63.9
College Graduate 307 86 24.6 19.9-30.0 221 75.4 70.0-80.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 226 99 45.5 38.0-53.2 127 54.5 46.8-62.0
$50,000+ 353 128 37.4 31.9-43.4 225 62.6 56.6-68.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 151 57 31.5 24.0-40.1 94 68.5 59.9-76.0

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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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