TABLE 3.
Belief Item | Odds Ratio (P) |
Cigarette companies try to get young people to start smoking. | 1.225 (.413) |
I want to be involved with efforts to get rid of cigarette smoking. | 3.542 (.000) |
Cigarette companies lie. | 0.836 (.490) |
Cigarette companies deny that cigarettes cause disease. | 1.95 (.002) |
Cigarette companies deny that cigarettes are addictive. | 0.988 (.953) |
I would like to see cigarette companies go out of business. | 1.801 (.013) |
Taking a stand against smoking is important to me. | 2.223 (.000) |
Not smoking is a way to express independence. | 1.542 (.038) |
Smoking makes people your age look cool or fit in.a | 2.459 (.000) |
Note. Intention not to smoke is coded as 1 and intention not to smoke as 0.
aDisagreed or strongly disagreed.