2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 3,942 1,510 37.2 35.1-39.4 2,432 62.8 60.6-64.9
Medicaid Region 4 935 307 33.9 30.0-38.0 628 66.1 62.0-70.0
GENDER
Male 430 164 39.4 33.5-45.7 266 60.6 54.3-66.5
Female 505 143 28.7 24.0-34.0 362 71.3 66.0-76.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 559 193 36.2 31.2-41.4 366 63.8 58.6-68.8
Non-Hispanic Black 181 60 34.4 25.8-44.1 121 65.6 55.9-74.2
Other 180 45 23.2 15.5-33.2 135 76.8 66.8-84.5
AGE
18-44 371 87 27.9 22.3-34.3 284 72.1 65.7-77.7
45-64 301 109 37.7 31.1-44.9 192 62.3 55.1-68.9
65+ 253 109 42.4 34.1-51.1 144 57.6 48.9-65.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 227 95 43.5 35.5-51.9 132 56.5 48.1-64.5
Some Post-H.S. 206 80 38.2 30.3-46.7 126 61.8 53.3-69.7
College Graduate 498 131 23.2 19.2-27.8 367 76.8 72.2-80.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 240 94 37.8 30.4-45.8 146 62.2 54.2-69.6
$50,000+ 522 161 32.3 27.2-37.9 361 67.7 62.1-72.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 173 52 33.4 24.8-43.4 121 66.6 56.6-75.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 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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