Table 1

Mean values for cigarette use and predictor variables

Variable	Percentage of completion	Mean	SD	Range of value
Cigarette use
Experimental smoking	100	1.34	1.02	1–9
Intentions to smoke in the future	98	1.40	0.81	1–5
Predictor variables
Absenteeism	100	2.85	1.06	1–5
Church attendance	100	4.91	2.53	1–8
Academic performance	100	3.49	0.92	1–5
Adult norms	98.5	3.77	1.17	1–5
Peer norms	98.8	2.87	1.30	1–5
Friends’ cigarette use	98	2.11	1.22	1–5
Anti-smoking attitudes	94.7	85.97	15.82	15–100
Smoking knowledge	94.5	31.69	19.70	0–100
Cigarette refusal	76.1	2.56	1.69	1–5
Drug refusal skills	82.3	75.55	28.52	0–100
Assertiveness	70.1	79.94	16.89	0–100
Decision-making skills	68.5	74.10	24.45	0–100
Advertising resistance skills	63.3	67.14	26.99	0–100
Trouble in the past month	92.9	30.53	21.94	0–100