2024 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Lung Cancer Screening

How old were you when you first started to smoke cigarettes regularly?*

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  Total
Respond.^
1 to 14 years old 15 to 17 years old 18 years old 19 to 24 years old 25+ years old
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 1,493 237 17.0 14.8-19.5 500 35.4 32.5-38.4 264 18.0 15.8-20.5 322 19.0 16.8-21.4 170 10.6 8.9-12.5
-Non-Hispanic Black 199 15 7.6 4.2-13.3 64 33.7 26.2-42.2 38 20.5 14.3-28.4 45 20.8 14.9-28.1 37 17.4 12.2-24.3

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*Asked of respondents that have smoked in the past or are currently smoking.
Regularly is at least one cigarette or more on days that a respondent smokes (either every day or some days) or smoked (not at all).

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2024
are NOT comparable to 2010 and earlier years.

Sub-group estimates have been suppressed because they do not meet statistical reliability standards.

^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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