2021 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 4,824 1,924 39.7 38.0-41.5 2,900 60.3 58.5-62.0
Medicaid Region 6 647 266 42.0 37.1-47.0 381 58.0 53.0-62.9
GENDER
Male 289 134 47.0 39.8-54.4 155 53.0 45.6-60.2
Female 358 132 37.1 30.4-44.3 226 62.9 55.7-69.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 400 184 50.0 43.4-56.5 216 50.0 43.5-56.6
Non-Hispanic Black 145 50 31.7 23.5-41.3 95 68.3 58.7-76.5
Other 85 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 211 72 37.5 29.2-46.6 139 62.5 53.4-70.8
45-64 216 97 46.1 38.4-54.0 119 53.9 46.0-61.6
65+ 203 91 45.4 37.5-53.5 112 54.6 46.5-62.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 232 116 50.9 43.1-58.6 116 49.1 41.4-56.9
Some Post-H.S. 181 94 45.5 36.1-55.3 87 54.5 44.7-63.9
College Graduate 227 53 18.9 14.0-24.9 174 81.1 75.1-86.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 247 120 45.3 37.7-53.0 127 54.7 47.0-62.3
$50,000+ 246 87 41.5 32.9-50.6 159 58.5 49.4-67.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 154 59 37.3 28.5-47.1 95 62.7 52.9-71.5

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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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