TABLE 3.

—Association Between Attitudes and Beliefs and Intention to Smoke in 1 Year Among 12- to 17-Year-Olds

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.