2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 456 314 65.4 58.7-71.5 142 34.6 28.5-41.3
Medicaid Region 2 497 386 72.9 67.2-77.9 111 27.1 22.1-32.8
GENDER
Male 212 144 66.4 58.0-73.8 68 33.6 26.2-42.0
Female 285 242 78.8 70.7-85.2 43 21.2 14.8-29.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 361 280 70.1 63.1-76.3 81 29.9 23.7-36.9
Non-Hispanic Black 72 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 58 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 144 91 60.4 50.3-69.6 53 39.6 30.4-49.7
45-64 182 147 79.9 71.4-86.4 35 20.1 13.6-28.6
65+ 163 140 81.6 70.1-89.4 23 18.4 10.6-29.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 159 101 60.3 50.3-69.5 58 39.7 30.5-49.7
Some Post-H.S. 126 96 74.5 63.7-83.0 30 25.5 17.0-36.3
College Graduate 209 186 88.4 81.9-92.7 23 11.6 7.3-18.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 156 108 62.6 52.2-71.9 48 37.4 28.1-47.8
$50,000+ 217 176 78.3 70.5-84.5 41 21.7 15.5-29.5
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 124 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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 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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