Table 4.

Percentage of agreement with each smoking belief, according to gender and country of data collection, analysis of variance (ANOVA, p value). Silne R, 2016, N = 12,979

	BOYS			GIRLS			All			Group comparisons
	Weekly smokers	Not weekly smokers	all	Weekly smokers	Not weekly smokers	all	Weekly smokers	Not weekly smokers	all	ANOVA gender in weekly smokers (F)	ANOVA gender in not weekly smokers (F)	ANOVA smoking status (all, F)
Positive individual beliefs
Feeling relaxed	86	38	44	88	38	43	87	38	44	2	1	1364.0*
Losing weight	27	17	18	26	20	21	26	19	20	1	14.3*	47.9*
Positive social beliefs
Looking cool	17	13	13	14	12	12	16	12	13	2	0	11.9*
Looking grown-up	16	18	18	13	19	18	15	18	18	3	2	12.5*
Looking masculine	15	11	12	5	9	8	10	10	10	48.1*	13.8*	0
Looking feminine	5	4	5	7	4	4	6	4	4	2	6.3*	15.3*
Getting a boy/girlfriend	9	6	7	6	4	4	7	5	6	6.0*	24.1*	10.6*
Becoming popular	9	13	12	8	12	12	9	13	12	2	1	19.8*
Appearing sexy	14	6	7	12	7	7	13	6	7	1	4.9*	103.2*
Negative individual beliefs
Getting facial wrinkles	48	73	70	59	80	78	54	76	74	15.2*	81.8*	346.8*
Having less ability to exercise	68	87	85	72	88	86	70	88	86	3	1	334.4*
Getting lung cancer	87	95	94	89	97	96	88	96	95	2	17.8*	149.1*
Having trouble breathing	80	93	91	85	96	94	83	94	93	5.6*	41.4*	263.2*
Negative social beliefs
Getting into trouble	47	80	76	53	83	80	50	81	78	5.4*	24.8*	764.9*
Most people reluctant to date	42	59	57	44	57	55	43	58	56	1	6.8*	115.7*
Parents’ disapproval	85	96	95	88	96	95	86	96	95	3	2	266.4*
Most people would not hire a smoker to babysit	64	80	79	63	81	78	64	80	78	1	0	218.8*
Best friends’ disapproval	20	57	53	25	72	67	22	64	60	6.1*	288.6*	1004.9*
Teachers’ disapproval	46	68	66	52	69	67	49	69	66	4.0*	0	219.1*

Note: we controlled for multiple testing using the DUNCAN test option of the ANOVA procedure

*p < 0,05