2023 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Other Tobacco Use

Currently, when you smoke cigarettes, do you usually smoke menthol cigarettes?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 403 170 48.0 40.4-55.7 233 52.0 44.3-59.6
GENDER
Male 208 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Female 195 86 49.2 39.0-59.5 *** *** ***
Have Health Insurance
Yes 356 152 47.6 39.4-55.9 204 52.4 44.1-60.6
No 42 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Body Mass Index
Underweight 16 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Recommended Range 101 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Overweight 130 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Obese 145 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Current Smoker
Yes 403 170 48.0 40.4-55.7 233 52.0 44.3-59.6
History of CVD**
Yes 75 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 325 141 49.2 40.8-57.7 184 50.8 42.3-59.2
Binge Drinker
Yes 95 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 295 112 41.8 32.8-51.5 183 58.2 48.5-67.2
Heavy Drinker
Yes 46 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 341 141 46.4 38.0-55.0 200 53.6 45.0-62.0
COPD
Yes 93 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 308 136 50.4 41.7-59.0 172 49.6 41.0-58.3
Current Asthma
Yes 52 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 351 145 46.8 38.6-55.1 206 53.2 44.9-61.4
Diabetes
Yes 51 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 352 151 49.6 41.5-57.6 201 50.4 42.4-58.5
Functional Disability
Yes 182 76 44.4 34.5-54.8 106 55.6 45.2-65.5
No 218 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Has two or more chronic diseases†
Yes 163 *** *** *** *** *** ***
No 240 97 50.9 41.3-60.4 143 49.1 39.6-58.7

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*Asked of respondents who answered to a previous question that they smoke cigarettes every day or some days.

**History of cardiovascular disease includes history of heart attack or coronary heart disease or stroke.

†Chronic diseases include heart disease (heart attack/stoke/angina), current asthma, skin cancer, other cancer, COPD, arthritis, depression, kidney disease and diabetes.

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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