2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 462 194 42.1 36.8-47.6 268 57.9 52.4-63.2
GENDER
Male 210 109 50.8 42.8-58.7 101 49.2 41.3-57.2
Female 252 85 33.5 26.9-40.8 167 66.5 59.2-73.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 304 141 44.8 38.3-51.5 163 55.2 48.5-61.7
Non-Hispanic Black 97 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 58 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 161 43 27.3 20.2-35.6 118 72.7 64.4-79.8
45-64 152 77 52.9 43.5-62.1 75 47.1 37.9-56.5
65+ 145 72 55.7 45.7-65.3 73 44.3 34.7-54.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 157 76 49.6 40.8-58.4 81 50.4 41.6-59.2
Some Post-H.S. 131 61 43.1 33.8-53.0 70 56.9 47.0-66.2
College Graduate 171 54 27.5 20.5-35.8 117 72.5 64.2-79.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 147 67 44.7 35.4-54.4 80 55.3 45.6-64.6
$50,000+ 205 86 44.5 36.7-52.6 119 55.5 47.4-63.3
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 110 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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