2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

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 3,500 2,889 81.0 79.3-82.5 611 19.0 17.5-20.7
Medicaid Region 1 536 435 78.0 73.1-82.3 101 22.0 17.7-26.9
GENDER
Male 236 181 71.5 63.6-78.3 55 28.5 21.7-36.4
Female 300 254 84.0 78.0-88.6 46 16.0 11.4-22.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 445 364 79.5 74.3-83.8 81 20.5 16.2-25.7
Non-Hispanic Black 31 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 54 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 129 94 72.5 62.7-80.6 35 27.5 19.4-37.3
45-64 170 131 74.4 65.8-81.5 39 25.6 18.5-34.2
65+ 230 203 87.6 80.9-92.2 27 12.4 7.8-19.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 158 125 75.5 65.8-83.2 33 24.5 16.8-34.2
Some Post-H.S. 161 121 74.6 65.8-81.8 40 25.4 18.2-34.2
College Graduate 216 188 85.4 78.8-90.2 28 14.6 9.8-21.2
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 182 134 71.0 61.6-78.9 48 29.0 21.1-38.4
$50,000+ 216 179 78.0 70.2-84.2 37 22.0 15.8-29.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 138 122 87.2 78.0-92.9 16 12.8 7.1-22.0

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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 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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