2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 1 & 2 Demographics

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
Region 1 & 2 369 298 78.9 72.5-84.1 71 21.1 15.9-27.5
GENDER
Male 161 119 73.0 63.1-81.0 42 27.0 19.0-36.9
Female 208 179 84.8 76.0-90.8 29 15.2 9.2-24.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 303 251 77.8 70.7-83.6 52 22.2 16.4-29.3
Non-Hispanic Black 12 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 51 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 76 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 128 *** *** *** *** *** ***
65+ 157 138 88.7 78.5-94.4 19 11.3 5.6-21.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 105 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 121 91 79.5 67.9-87.7 30 20.5 12.3-32.1
College Graduate 141 132 94.1 87.8-97.2 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 130 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 149 123 79.6 69.6-86.9 26 20.4 13.1-30.4
Don't know/Not Sure 90 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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 2021 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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