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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2012 Oct 15;17(10):1215–1231. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2012.688246

Table 4.

Antibullying attitudes by peer crowd (%)

Elite Deviant Academic Counterculture
Cigarette companies lie. 56.80 51.40 56.30 51.50
Cigarette companies deny that cigarettes cause cancer and other harmful diseases. 39.10 33.00 36.90 32.60
Cigarette companies deny that cigarettes are addictive. 44.50 35.90 45.60 43.20
I would like to see cigarette companies go out of business. 6.00 46.60* 65.00** 52.60
Cigarette companies try to get young people to start smoking. 4.00 34.00* 47.60 4.00
Not smoking is a way to express your independence. 49.10 38.80 53.40** 42.10
Smoking cigarettes makes people your age look cool.a 67.30 62.10 76.70** 63.20
a

Reverse coded.

*

χ2 significant at p <.05.

**

χ2 significant at p < 01.