Adolescent mediating variables affected by the community program
| Variable | Nature of effect | t (14 df) | p | |
| Awareness of efforts to prevent illegal sales | Slope of awareness over five years significantly more positive in CP communities | 3.66 | 0.0026 | |
| Attitude toward tobacco | Slope of attitudes over five years significantly more negative for CP communities | 2.31 | 0.036 | |
| Intentions to smoke | Slope of intentions to smoke over five years was significantly more positive for grade 9 males in SBO communities | 2.87 | 0.0124 | |
| Intentions to chew (males only) | Changes from time 1 to time 2 in males' intentions to chew differed significantly between conditions. | −3.48 | 0.0036 | |
| Friends' smoking | Friends smoking increased significantly more in SBO communities than in CP communities from time 1 to: | |||
| time 2 | −3.75 | 0.0022 | ||
| time 5 | −2.48 | 0.0263 | ||
| General peer deviance | Peer deviance increased significantly more in SBO than CP communities from time 1 to: | |||
| time 2 | −2.67 | 0.0184 | ||
| time 5 | −1.95 | 0.0713 | ||