2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Tobacco Use

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%)
North Carolina 4,238 828 22.9 21.3-24.6 3,410 77.1 75.4-78.7
Medicaid Region 6 570 96 22.1 17.8-27.2 474 77.9 72.8-82.2
GENDER
Male 244 46 25.0 18.3-33.2 198 75.0 66.8-81.7
Female 326 50 19.5 14.2-26.1 276 80.5 73.9-85.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 346 65 26.9 20.8-34.0 281 73.1 66.0-79.2
Non-Hispanic Black 138 16 15.1 8.9-24.2 122 84.9 75.8-91.1
Other 73 11 15.7 8.4-27.4 62 84.3 72.6-91.6
AGE
18-44 174 56 38.2 29.6-47.6 118 61.8 52.4-70.4
45-64 195 30 15.9 10.8-22.9 165 84.1 77.1-89.2
65+ 186 *** *** *** 177 95.7 91.5-97.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 205 33 21.6 14.9-30.1 172 78.4 69.9-85.1
Some Post-H.S. 152 42 30.7 22.2-40.7 110 69.3 59.3-77.8
College Graduate 207 20 10.4 6.5-16.5 187 89.6 83.5-93.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 211 45 26.2 19.2-34.6 166 73.8 65.4-80.8
$50,000+ 212 30 18.1 11.8-26.7 182 81.9 73.3-88.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 147 21 21.6 13.3-33.1 126 78.4 66.9-86.7

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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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