2024 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

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
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 248 43 22.6 16.5-30.2 79 31.7 25.2-39.1 50 20.4 15.0-27.1 52 15.7 10.9-22.1 24 9.6 6.0-14.8
Region 3 126 22 23.9 15.3-35.3 *** *** *** 26 19.2 12.4-28.4 25 15.3 9.9-23.0 15 7.4 4.1-12.9
Region 4 288 45 16.2 11.9-21.8 90 33.6 27.2-40.6 48 17.6 12.9-23.5 71 22.1 17.2-27.9 34 10.5 7.3-14.9
Region 5 212 21 11.0 6.9-17.1 86 41.5 33.9-49.5 38 18.4 13.0-25.5 48 22.7 16.8-29.9 19 6.4 3.9-10.4
Region 6 105 *** *** *** 31 30.3 21.0-41.4 11 12.8 6.7-23.2 27 23.6 15.5-34.1 14 9.1 5.2-15.6
Region 7 225 32 13.7 9.3-19.9 75 36.6 29.3-44.6 37 19.5 13.7-26.8 50 19.2 13.7-26.2 31 11.0 7.3-16.1
Region 8 153 27 13.8 8.7-21.2 49 35.3 26.8-44.8 29 20.0 13.6-28.5 31 16.3 11.1-23.3 17 14.6 8.7-23.5
Region 9 & 10 136 25 18.4 11.9-27.3 52 37.5 28.4-47.6 25 15.7 10.1-23.6 18 10.9 6.2-18.4 16 17.6 10.4-28.2
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 440 78 16.4 12.7-20.8 154 36.4 31.2-42.0 75 16.8 13.1-21.3 81 15.7 12.2-20.0 52 14.6 10.9-19.3
Piedmont 752 107 15.6 12.7-19.1 254 36.5 32.4-40.7 128 18.0 15.0-21.6 179 21.5 18.3-25.0 84 8.4 6.6-10.6
Western NC 301 52 23.4 17.5-30.5 92 30.3 24.3-36.9 61 20.6 15.5-26.8 62 15.9 11.5-21.6 34 9.8 6.6-14.4
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 208 35 23.8 16.9-32.5 66 31.9 24.8-39.9 42 19.3 13.8-26.2 46 16.7 11.4-23.9 19 8.3 5.1-13.2
Northwest 229 42 21.2 15.3-28.8 73 34.8 27.3-43.1 41 16.7 11.9-23.1 45 16.9 12.1-23.1 28 10.4 6.6-16.1
Charlotte 225 33 15.1 10.5-21.2 68 32.5 25.6-40.4 41 20.1 14.3-27.3 57 22.5 17.1-29.1 26 9.8 6.5-14.5
Greensboro 172 19 12.9 7.9-20.5 66 40.7 32.3-49.6 32 19.1 13.0-27.2 38 20.9 14.9-28.5 17 6.4 3.8-10.6
Southern Regional 129 27 21.9 13.8-32.8 41 34.7 25.5-45.2 11 10.0 5.1-18.8 30 20.2 13.6-28.9 20 13.2 8.3-20.3
Southeast 89 17 15.8 8.6-27.2 *** *** *** *** *** *** 20 18.5 11.4-28.7 *** *** ***
Wake 236 29 11.4 7.5-17.0 82 37.4 30.5-44.9 40 19.0 13.7-25.8 57 23.0 17.4-29.6 28 9.1 6.0-13.7
Area L & Eastern 205 35 16.3 11.3-23.0 75 34.1 26.9-42.1 38 18.4 12.8-25.6 29 12.5 7.8-19.5 28 18.8 12.8-26.6
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 248 43 22.6 16.5-30.2 79 31.7 25.2-39.1 50 20.4 15.0-27.1 52 15.7 10.9-22.1 24 9.6 6.0-14.8
Region 2 236 34 16.8 11.6-23.7 86 42.3 34.7-50.2 41 15.6 11.1-21.6 48 17.3 12.5-23.4 27 8.0 5.2-12.2
Region 3 288 45 16.4 12.0-21.9 90 33.4 27.1-40.3 48 17.7 13.0-23.7 71 22.0 17.2-27.9 34 10.5 7.3-14.9
Region 4 313 38 12.8 8.9-18.0 107 35.5 29.5-42.1 58 21.2 16.0-27.6 75 22.3 17.3-28.3 35 8.1 5.5-11.8
Region 5 223 43 18.8 13.1-26.3 70 35.6 28.5-43.5 32 15.6 10.7-22.3 53 20.8 15.5-27.3 25 9.1 6.0-13.5
Region 6 185 34 17.1 11.7-24.2 68 33.4 26.1-41.7 35 18.3 12.6-25.8 23 10.6 6.5-16.8 25 20.6 13.8-29.4

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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).

See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.

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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