2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 835 639 73.1 67.6-78.0 196 26.9 22.0-32.4
GENDER
Male 334 232 65.3 55.9-73.6 102 34.7 26.4-44.1
Female 501 407 79.5 73.1-84.7 94 20.5 15.3-26.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 327 249 72.5 65.5-78.5 78 27.5 21.5-34.5
Non-Hispanic Black 147 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 349 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 252 180 68.6 58.6-77.1 72 31.4 22.9-41.4
45-64 313 238 74.8 65.5-82.2 75 25.2 17.8-34.5
65+ 257 208 76.2 66.3-83.9 49 23.8 16.1-33.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 276 189 70.7 59.7-79.7 87 29.3 20.3-40.3
Some Post-H.S. 263 197 67.2 58.2-75.2 66 32.8 24.8-41.8
College Graduate 294 252 85.1 78.2-90.1 42 14.9 9.9-21.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 314 221 69.5 59.9-77.6 93 30.5 22.4-40.1
$50,000+ 332 267 75.2 67.8-81.5 65 24.8 18.5-32.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 189 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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