2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

Secondhand Smoke

On how many of the past 7 days, did you smell tobacco smoke from someone else's cigarette,
cigar, or pipe drifting into your home from nearby apartments or from outside?

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  Total
Respond.^
1-6 days All 7 days No days
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,460 168 5.4 4.2- 6.7 106 3.4 2.6- 4.4 3,186 91.3 89.7-92.6
Medicaid Region 4 850 43 4.4 3.1- 6.3 32 4.2 2.6- 6.7 775 91.4 88.6-93.6
GENDER
Male 394 23 4.5 2.8- 7.1 16 5.5 2.8-10.8 355 90.0 84.9-93.5
Female 456 20 4.4 2.6- 7.3 16 2.9 1.7- 5.2 420 92.7 89.4-95.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 497 17 2.9 1.7- 5.0 15 3.8 1.8- 7.9 465 93.3 89.3-95.8
Non-Hispanic Black 182 *** *** *** *** *** *** 163 88.2 81.1-92.9
Other 154 14 7.0 3.9-12.5 *** *** *** 132 89.7 83.7-93.7
AGE
18-44 360 26 7.0 4.4-10.8 15 3.5 1.8- 6.5 319 89.5 85.2-92.7
45-64 297 15 3.6 2.0- 6.3 13 6.5 3.0-13.3 269 90.0 83.6-94.0
65+ 179 *** *** *** *** *** *** 175 98.3 93.8-99.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 221 13 3.8 2.0- 6.9 14 8.0 4.0-15.2 194 88.3 81.3-92.9
Some Post-H.S. 209 *** *** *** *** *** *** 197 94.0 88.6-97.0
College Graduate 416 24 5.9 3.7- 9.4 11 1.7 0.9- 3.3 381 92.4 88.9-94.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 224 16 6.6 3.6-11.7 15 8.2 4.0-16.1 193 85.3 77.4-90.8
$50,000+ 437 24 4.5 2.8- 7.1 *** *** *** 405 93.7 90.6-95.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 189 *** *** *** *** *** *** 177 94.0 88.3-97.0

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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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