2022 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

Tobacco Use

Use of Any Tobacco Product*

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  Total
Respond.^		 No Use Use at least 1 Product
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,686 2,937 78.4 76.5-80.2 749 21.6 19.8-23.5
Medicaid Region 6 491 381 74.8 69.2-79.8 110 25.2 20.2-30.8
GENDER
Male 221 161 69.6 60.7-77.3 60 30.4 22.7-39.3
Female 270 220 79.9 72.6-85.6 50 20.1 14.4-27.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 313 241 72.2 64.9-78.4 72 27.8 21.6-35.1
Non-Hispanic Black 111 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 54 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 155 108 67.8 57.8-76.4 47 32.2 23.6-42.2
45-64 167 124 76.4 67.1-83.7 43 23.6 16.3-32.9
65+ 159 140 86.0 74.9-92.7 19 14.0 7.3-25.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 174 120 66.6 56.9-75.0 54 33.4 25.0-43.1
Some Post-H.S. 151 111 77.7 69.9-83.9 40 22.3 16.1-30.1
College Graduate 164 150 90.9 84.3-94.9 14 9.1 5.1-15.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 194 149 73.6 63.4-81.7 45 26.4 18.3-36.6
$50,000+ 189 147 76.3 68.3-82.7 42 23.7 17.3-31.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 108 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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*Current use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, cigars, or hookah.
This table only includes respondents who were asked the questions on other tobacco products.

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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