2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 3

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 3 855 297 35.7 32.0-39.6 558 64.3 60.4-68.0
GENDER
Male 406 163 41.7 36.1-47.4 243 58.3 52.6-63.9
Female 449 134 30.0 25.2-35.2 315 70.0 64.8-74.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 489 191 40.1 35.1-45.3 298 59.9 54.7-64.9
Non-Hispanic Black 172 45 26.4 19.1-35.3 127 73.6 64.7-80.9
Other 187 56 30.4 22.9-39.0 131 69.6 61.0-77.1
AGE
18-44 347 91 27.5 22.4-33.4 256 72.5 66.6-77.6
45-64 280 119 45.2 38.5-52.2 161 54.8 47.8-61.5
65+ 207 79 39.2 31.4-47.7 128 60.8 52.3-68.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 246 102 43.8 36.5-51.3 144 56.2 48.7-63.5
Some Post-H.S. 215 79 35.5 28.6-43.1 136 64.5 56.9-71.4
College Graduate 390 114 28.1 23.4-33.3 276 71.9 66.7-76.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 243 86 35.9 28.8-43.7 157 64.1 56.3-71.2
$50,000+ 416 141 36.6 31.4-42.0 275 63.4 58.0-68.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 196 70 33.8 26.2-42.2 126 66.2 57.8-73.8

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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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