2021 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

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
Region 5 582 485 82.9 78.3-86.6 97 17.1 13.4-21.7
GENDER
Male 279 221 79.3 73.2-84.4 58 20.7 15.6-26.8
Female 303 264 86.1 78.8-91.1 39 13.9 8.9-21.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 366 306 81.9 75.6-86.9 60 18.1 13.1-24.4
Non-Hispanic Black 119 97 81.8 72.6-88.4 22 18.2 11.6-27.4
Other 86 73 88.2 77.6-94.2 13 11.8 5.8-22.4
AGE
18-44 215 171 80.8 74.1-86.2 44 19.2 13.8-25.9
45-64 196 161 78.0 67.9-85.6 35 22.0 14.4-32.1
65+ 156 139 92.0 86.3-95.4 17 8.0 4.6-13.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 152 111 74.3 63.7-82.6 41 25.7 17.4-36.3
Some Post-H.S. 137 111 84.6 77.2-90.0 26 15.4 10.0-22.8
College Graduate 291 261 89.4 84.7-92.7 30 10.6 7.3-15.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 202 151 76.7 69.4-82.7 51 23.3 17.3-30.6
$50,000+ 255 229 90.4 85.8-93.6 26 9.6 6.4-14.2
Don't know/Not Sure 125 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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