2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 4

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 4 1,098 326 30.9 27.7-34.3 772 69.1 65.7-72.3
GENDER
Male 490 169 36.0 31.1-41.2 321 64.0 58.8-68.9
Female 608 157 26.1 22.1-30.5 451 73.9 69.5-77.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 636 216 35.5 31.2-39.9 420 64.5 60.1-68.8
Non-Hispanic Black 197 59 29.8 22.7-38.1 138 70.2 61.9-77.3
Other 251 48 19.3 13.9-26.1 203 80.7 73.9-86.1
AGE
18-44 470 105 25.7 21.1-30.9 365 74.3 69.1-78.9
45-64 357 114 31.2 25.9-37.0 243 68.8 63.0-74.1
65+ 250 102 43.0 35.7-50.7 148 57.0 49.3-64.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 299 104 37.4 30.9-44.3 195 62.6 55.7-69.1
Some Post-H.S. 267 94 34.1 28.0-40.8 173 65.9 59.2-72.0
College Graduate 529 128 22.6 19.0-26.6 401 77.4 73.4-81.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 295 105 36.9 30.3-44.0 190 63.1 56.0-69.7
$50,000+ 532 151 30.0 25.6-34.8 381 70.0 65.2-74.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 271 70 26.3 20.5-33.1 201 73.7 66.9-79.5

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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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