2022 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 4,299 1,711 39.5 37.6-41.6 2,588 60.5 58.4-62.4
Medicaid Region 6 573 235 41.2 36.0-46.5 338 58.8 53.5-64.0
GENDER
Male 258 111 45.5 37.7-53.5 147 54.5 46.5-62.3
Female 315 124 37.0 30.4-44.1 191 63.0 55.9-69.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 367 169 46.9 40.4-53.5 198 53.1 46.5-59.6
Non-Hispanic Black 119 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 73 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 202 69 34.9 27.2-43.5 133 65.1 56.5-72.8
45-64 181 73 39.4 30.5-49.2 108 60.6 50.8-69.5
65+ 180 90 54.1 44.5-63.4 90 45.9 36.6-55.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 203 93 47.0 38.5-55.6 110 53.0 44.4-61.5
Some Post-H.S. 176 76 37.2 29.3-45.8 100 62.8 54.2-70.7
College Graduate 192 65 33.6 25.9-42.2 127 66.4 57.8-74.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 230 108 47.8 39.4-56.3 122 52.2 43.7-60.6
$50,000+ 223 77 32.7 25.9-40.4 146 67.3 59.6-74.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 120 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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