2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid region 6

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 6 383 306 75.9 70.0-80.9 77 24.1 19.1-30.0
GENDER
Male 163 119 68.4 58.9-76.5 44 31.6 23.5-41.1
Female 220 187 82.3 75.0-87.9 33 17.7 12.1-25.0
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 249 200 74.2 66.4-80.7 49 25.8 19.3-33.6
Non-Hispanic Black 87 70 78.3 66.3-86.9 17 21.7 13.1-33.7
Other 45 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 116 92 74.2 63.5-82.7 24 25.8 17.3-36.5
45-64 132 99 72.5 62.2-80.9 33 27.5 19.1-37.8
65+ 132 113 81.8 71.4-89.0 19 18.2 11.0-28.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 123 86 67.3 56.8-76.3 37 32.7 23.7-43.2
Some Post-H.S. 114 85 72.2 61.2-81.0 29 27.8 19.0-38.8
College Graduate 143 134 94.9 90.1-97.4 *** *** ***
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 116 88 73.6 62.6-82.2 28 26.4 17.8-37.4
$50,000+ 163 136 78.2 68.9-85.3 27 21.8 14.7-31.1
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 104 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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