Table III.

Logistic regression model with distal predictors of intentions to smoke in nonsmoking adolescents (n=260, R²=0.20)

Variable	Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval	P-Value*
Age (in years)
Increasing	1.44	1.06 – 1.98	0.022
Gender
Male vs. Female	1.52	0.82 – 2.82	0.185
Race
White vs. Non-White	1.85	0.91 – 3.80	0.091
Group
Cancer vs. School	0.43	0.21 – 0.89	0.023
Total Optimism
Decreasing	1.04	0.99 – 1.09	0.116
Rebelliousness
Increasing	1.36	1.12 – 1.66	0.002

^*Six participants were missing intentions scores and 18 were missing values for independent variables, so 260 participants contributed to this model.