2024 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 5 Demographics

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
Region 5 611 217 37.2 32.7-41.9 394 62.8 58.1-67.3
GENDER
Male 263 108 41.1 34.5-48.1 155 58.9 51.9-65.5
Female 348 109 33.6 27.7-40.0 239 66.4 60.0-72.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 359 149 43.5 37.6-49.5 210 56.5 50.5-62.4
Non-Hispanic Black 115 35 28.3 19.8-38.6 80 71.7 61.4-80.2
Other 130 33 27.1 18.7-37.5 97 72.9 62.5-81.3
AGE
18-44 255 70 31.3 24.8-38.6 185 68.7 61.4-75.2
45-64 192 76 40.6 32.7-49.0 116 59.4 51.0-67.3
65+ 157 69 44.6 35.7-53.9 88 55.4 46.1-64.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 179 72 42.1 33.8-50.8 107 57.9 49.2-66.2
Some Post-H.S. 151 67 42.6 33.9-51.8 84 57.4 48.2-66.1
College Graduate 278 77 27.1 21.7-33.2 201 72.9 66.8-78.3
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 191 79 43.0 34.9-51.5 112 57.0 48.5-65.1
$50,000+ 271 91 34.7 28.2-41.8 180 65.3 58.2-71.8
Don't know/Not Sure 149 47 34.9 26.5-44.4 102 65.1 55.6-73.5

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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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