2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 945 392 40.5 35.6-45.7 553 59.5 54.3-64.4
GENDER
Male 398 200 49.3 41.2-57.4 198 50.7 42.6-58.8
Female 547 192 32.3 26.6-38.5 355 67.7 61.5-73.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 401 176 44.4 38.1-50.9 225 55.6 49.1-61.9
Non-Hispanic Black 161 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 370 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 311 119 36.5 29.0-44.8 192 63.5 55.2-71.0
45-64 337 137 40.5 32.0-49.6 200 59.5 50.4-68.0
65+ 283 133 49.4 39.7-59.1 150 50.6 40.9-60.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 307 158 46.5 37.0-56.2 149 53.5 43.8-63.0
Some Post-H.S. 296 131 44.3 36.1-52.9 165 55.7 47.1-63.9
College Graduate 340 103 26.9 21.0-33.9 237 73.1 66.1-79.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 355 165 47.5 39.0-56.3 190 52.5 43.7-61.0
$50,000+ 385 145 38.9 32.3-45.8 240 61.1 54.2-67.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 205 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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