2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 4,162 1,547 37.3 35.5-39.0 2,615 62.7 61.0-64.5
Medicaid Region 1 589 257 46.2 41.1-51.3 332 53.8 48.7-58.9
GENDER
Male 267 134 48.6 41.4-55.8 133 51.4 44.2-58.6
Female 322 123 43.9 36.9-51.2 199 56.1 48.8-63.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 484 220 47.9 42.3-53.5 264 52.1 46.5-57.7
Non-Hispanic Black 33 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 154 55 38.3 29.5-47.9 99 61.7 52.1-70.5
45-64 183 79 47.2 39.0-55.6 104 52.8 44.4-61.0
65+ 245 121 56.1 47.8-64.1 124 43.9 35.9-52.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 178 86 49.3 40.3-58.3 92 50.7 41.7-59.7
Some Post-H.S. 170 89 52.6 43.6-61.4 81 47.4 38.6-56.4
College Graduate 240 81 34.4 27.1-42.5 159 65.6 57.5-72.9
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 208 104 53.1 44.5-61.5 104 46.9 38.5-55.5
$50,000+ 238 107 48.8 41.3-56.4 131 51.2 43.6-58.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 143 46 31.7 22.7-42.3 97 68.3 57.7-77.3

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2024 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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