2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 2

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 2 592 246 40.6 35.9-45.5 346 59.4 54.5-64.1
GENDER
Male 268 127 45.2 38.4-52.2 141 54.8 47.8-61.6
Female 324 119 36.5 30.1-43.4 205 63.5 56.6-69.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 385 175 46.5 40.5-52.5 210 53.5 47.5-59.5
Non-Hispanic Black 98 32 28.0 19.2-38.9 66 72.0 61.1-80.8
Other 107 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 205 76 35.9 28.5-44.1 129 64.1 55.9-71.5
45-64 197 89 44.4 36.5-52.6 108 55.6 47.4-63.5
65+ 181 79 44.3 35.5-53.5 102 55.7 46.5-64.5
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 196 81 38.8 30.9-47.3 115 61.2 52.7-69.1
Some Post-H.S. 163 82 48.7 39.8-57.7 81 51.3 42.3-60.2
College Graduate 230 81 32.8 26.3-40.1 149 67.2 59.9-73.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 200 102 50.7 42.3-59.0 98 49.3 41.0-57.7
$50,000+ 241 86 32.8 26.1-40.4 155 67.2 59.6-73.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 151 58 41.0 31.8-50.7 93 59.0 49.3-68.2

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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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