2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 5

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 5 566 227 38.3 33.7-43.1 339 61.7 56.9-66.3
GENDER
Male 267 120 46.2 39.4-53.2 147 53.8 46.8-60.6
Female 299 107 30.9 25.1-37.4 192 69.1 62.6-74.9
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 356 162 45.0 39.1-51.0 194 55.0 49.0-60.9
Non-Hispanic Black 99 22 17.7 11.2-26.9 77 82.3 73.1-88.8
Other 103 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 212 60 28.8 22.4-36.2 152 71.2 63.8-77.6
45-64 181 83 47.0 38.6-55.6 98 53.0 44.4-61.4
65+ 168 82 45.5 36.6-54.6 86 54.5 45.4-63.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 204 84 38.7 31.3-46.6 120 61.3 53.4-68.7
Some Post-H.S. 156 78 46.3 37.5-55.3 78 53.7 44.7-62.5
College Graduate 204 64 27.7 21.5-34.8 140 72.3 65.2-78.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 179 73 36.1 28.4-44.6 106 63.9 55.4-71.6
$50,000+ 263 107 43.3 36.6-50.4 156 56.7 49.6-63.4
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 124 47 29.8 21.4-39.8 77 70.2 60.2-78.6

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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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