2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 618 244 41.7 36.6-46.9 374 58.3 53.1-63.4
GENDER
Male 294 139 47.3 40.4-54.3 155 52.7 45.7-59.6
Female 324 105 36.7 29.4-44.7 219 63.3 55.3-70.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 417 176 45.7 39.3-52.3 241 54.3 47.7-60.7
Non-Hispanic Black 105 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 80 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 195 63 34.2 26.5-42.8 132 65.8 57.2-73.5
45-64 232 92 42.2 34.0-50.9 140 57.8 49.1-66.0
65+ 175 *** *** *** 87 42.0 32.0-52.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 186 84 52.1 42.4-61.6 102 47.9 38.4-57.6
Some Post-H.S. 177 78 43.2 34.7-52.2 99 56.8 47.8-65.3
College Graduate 252 80 26.5 20.9-33.0 172 73.5 67.0-79.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 207 96 52.6 43.0-61.9 111 47.4 38.1-57.0
$50,000+ 248 89 34.2 27.4-41.8 159 65.8 58.2-72.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 163 59 38.0 29.2-47.7 104 62.0 52.3-70.8

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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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