2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 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 5 475 382 73.7 67.6-79.0 93 26.3 21.0-32.4
GENDER
Male 213 157 66.6 57.6-74.5 56 33.4 25.5-42.4
Female 262 225 80.4 71.8-86.9 37 19.6 13.1-28.2
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 296 239 72.0 63.8-78.9 57 28.0 21.1-36.2
Non-Hispanic Black 94 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 75 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 154 112 63.6 53.4-72.7 42 36.4 27.3-46.6
45-64 171 139 81.1 73.2-87.1 32 18.9 12.9-26.8
65+ 138 *** *** *** *** *** ***
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 135 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Some Post-H.S. 109 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 227 202 88.7 83.0-92.6 25 11.3 7.4-17.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 125 *** *** *** *** *** ***
$50,000+ 238 197 78.9 71.1-85.0 41 21.1 15.0-28.9
Don't know/Not Sure 112 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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