2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 505 174 35.8 30.5-41.5 331 64.2 58.5-69.5
GENDER
Male 241 97 43.8 35.6-52.3 144 56.2 47.7-64.4
Female 264 77 28.3 22.1-35.5 187 71.7 64.5-77.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 289 112 42.5 35.3-50.1 177 57.5 49.9-64.7
Non-Hispanic Black 110 37 29.1 20.1-40.2 73 70.9 59.8-79.9
Other 95 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 205 54 31.4 23.5-40.4 151 68.6 59.6-76.5
45-64 161 58 38.5 29.1-48.9 103 61.5 51.1-70.9
65+ 129 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 145 63 44.2 34.4-54.3 82 55.8 45.7-65.6
Some Post-H.S. 138 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 218 56 25.5 19.2-33.0 162 74.5 67.0-80.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 152 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 239 77 34.8 27.6-42.9 162 65.2 57.1-72.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 114 38 25.1 17.1-35.2 76 74.9 64.8-82.9

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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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