2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 517 213 38.8 33.7-44.2 304 61.2 55.8-66.3
GENDER
Male 230 108 46.4 38.6-54.3 122 53.6 45.7-61.4
Female 287 105 31.2 24.9-38.3 182 68.8 61.7-75.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 321 146 44.5 37.8-51.3 175 55.5 48.7-62.2
Non-Hispanic Black 119 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 70 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 173 60 34.7 26.6-43.8 113 65.3 56.2-73.4
45-64 171 70 36.8 28.9-45.6 101 63.2 54.4-71.1
65+ 172 82 48.5 39.1-58.0 90 51.5 42.0-60.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 169 76 39.7 31.0-49.0 93 60.3 51.0-69.0
Some Post-H.S. 164 77 42.5 33.7-51.8 87 57.5 48.2-66.3
College Graduate 182 59 31.4 23.9-40.1 123 68.6 59.9-76.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 186 94 46.3 37.3-55.6 92 53.7 44.4-62.7
$50,000+ 233 86 38.1 30.7-46.0 147 61.9 54.0-69.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 98 33 27.4 18.3-38.9 65 72.6 61.1-81.7

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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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