2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 1 484 206 40.8 33.8-48.1 278 59.2 51.9-66.2
GENDER
Male 202 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Female 282 105 34.0 26.6-42.4 177 66.0 57.6-73.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 395 169 43.6 35.8-51.6 226 56.4 48.4-64.2
Non-Hispanic Black 26 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 59 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 115 38 26.9 18.8-36.9 77 73.1 63.1-81.2
45-64 162 *** *** *** *** *** ***
65+ 198 98 53.3 43.0-63.3 *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 131 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 153 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 198 64 28.0 20.7-36.7 134 72.0 63.3-79.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 169 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 202 74 31.1 23.8-39.6 128 68.9 60.4-76.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 113 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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