One interesting piece of data from the question about banning smoking in North Carolina entirely, is that African Americans were significantly more likely to support such a ban.To be specific, the exact question asked was: "Would you support or oppose a North Carolina law that would ban tobacco use entirely?" And then we asked, "And would that be strongly support/oppose, or somewhat support/oppose."
Here's how the answers differed by race:
Caucasian:
- Strongly support 17.9%
- Somewhat support 8.4%
- Somewhat oppose 15.8%
- Strongly oppose 54.9%
African American:
- Strongly support 28.9%
- Somewhat support 6.6%
- Somewhat oppose 19.7%
- Strongly oppose 42.8%
So 35.5% of North Carolina African-Americans would support a complete ban on tobacco in the state, versus 26.3% of Caucasians. And the opposition is softer among African-Americans as well.
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3 comments:
This is interesting. How does it breakdown by age? Gender? Oh, I think I will take a look at the actual survey and find that information.
Interesting information. Here in California, smokers haver fewer and fewer places to smoke in public. Practically nowhere indoors, except for casinos on American Indian property, and even outdoors localities are pushing bans on smoking. I can understand the indoor rules but outdoors is overkill.
Yes, TDR, it's an interesting question. I see a lot of people who seem to have a genuine need to step outside and smoke, so a total ban would be hard on them for sure.
With all the regulation on the topic getting tougher and tougher it seemed like an idea that would get floated sooner or later, so testing it in NC of all places for feedback was an interesting test.
The responses were decidedly mixed on the issue...
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