2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 4,299 1,711 39.5 37.6-41.6 2,588 60.5 58.4-62.4
Medicaid Region 5 951 419 43.2 38.9-47.6 532 56.8 52.4-61.1
GENDER
Male 451 225 49.4 43.1-55.8 226 50.6 44.2-56.9
Female 500 194 37.4 31.7-43.4 306 62.6 56.6-68.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 497 247 47.7 42.3-53.2 250 52.3 46.8-57.7
Non-Hispanic Black 179 73 45.3 35.2-55.8 106 54.7 44.2-64.8
Other 251 89 25.8 18.6-34.7 162 74.2 65.3-81.4
AGE
18-44 343 111 33.9 27.6-40.8 232 66.1 59.2-72.4
45-64 314 161 54.9 46.9-62.6 153 45.1 37.4-53.1
65+ 281 145 48.4 40.7-56.2 136 51.6 43.8-59.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 330 160 47.0 39.5-54.7 170 53.0 45.3-60.5
Some Post-H.S. 312 154 46.1 38.8-53.6 158 53.9 46.4-61.2
College Graduate 308 104 32.4 26.4-39.1 204 67.6 60.9-73.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 363 181 47.9 40.5-55.5 182 52.1 44.5-59.5
$50,000+ 377 163 45.3 38.7-52.0 214 54.7 48.0-61.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 211 75 31.6 24.1-40.3 136 68.4 59.7-75.9

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2022 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2022 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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