2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

Lung Cancer Screening

How old were you when you first started to smoke cigarettes regularly?*

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  Total
Respond.^
1 to 14 years old 15 to 17 years old 18 years old 19 to 24 years old 25+ years old
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,652 268 17.1 14.8-19.7 561 34.0 30.8-37.3 263 16.1 13.8-18.8 373 21.9 19.1-24.8 187 10.9 9.0-13.2
Medicaid Region 5 402 62 14.8 10.8-19.8 144 36.3 30.1-43.1 75 20.5 15.4-26.9 80 18.5 13.7-24.6 41 9.9 6.7-14.3
GENDER
Male 220 41 19.8 13.8-27.7 70 32.5 24.6-41.6 39 18.8 12.2-28.0 53 20.0 13.8-28.1 17 8.8 5.0-15.2
Female 182 21 8.2 4.7-14.0 74 41.2 31.7-51.4 36 22.7 15.4-32.3 27 16.6 9.7-27.0 24 11.2 6.6-18.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 242 48 18.5 13.2-25.2 97 41.7 34.0-49.7 40 17.1 11.9-23.8 36 13.6 8.9-20.1 21 9.3 5.6-15.0
Non-Hispanic Black 70 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 11 11.7 5.5-23.3
Other 83 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 107 11 11.4 6.0-20.5 *** *** *** 24 20.0 12.2-30.8 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 153 26 16.9 10.5-26.0 *** *** *** *** *** *** 22 11.8 6.2-21.4 17 10.1 5.5-17.7
65+ 140 25 16.5 9.7-26.7 *** *** *** 24 18.9 11.7-29.2 30 18.1 10.9-28.8 14 7.7 3.8-14.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 153 35 16.4 10.5-24.7 *** *** *** *** *** *** 29 17.0 9.5-28.6 11 8.5 4.1-16.6
Some Post-H.S. 149 19 15.5 9.4-24.6 58 37.2 27.7-47.9 29 19.0 12.0-28.8 31 19.8 12.5-29.7 12 8.5 4.3-16.3
College Graduate 99 *** *** *** *** *** *** 18 21.7 13.5-32.9 20 19.1 11.7-29.6 18 16.5 9.4-27.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 175 24 11.2 6.6-18.4 *** *** *** 29 16.7 10.1-26.2 *** *** *** 17 8.3 4.3-15.2
$50,000+ 156 29 21.4 14.3-30.7 47 27.3 19.6-36.7 31 23.8 15.5-34.7 30 16.2 10.7-23.9 19 11.3 6.5-18.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 71 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*Asked of respondents that have smoked in the past or are currently smoking.
Regularly is at least one cigarette or more on days that a respondent smokes (either every day or some days) or smoked (not at all).

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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