At Level 1, latent class membership was regressed on the student-level predictors in a multinomial logistic regression. In this model, the nonsmoker latent class served as the reference group. The first set of columns in Table 3 presents the results that compare the moderate smokers to the nonsmokers. The odds that a girl would be a moderate smoker (compared to a nonsmoker) were significantly higher as her school bonding decreased, school performance decreased, parents’ expectations for academic achievement decreased, parents’ involvement in school decreased, involvement with friends who were well bonded to school decreased (although this is a marginally significant effect), and if she associated with friends who had dropped out of school. As is the case in any regression model, the effect of each covariate represents its unique effect after adjusting for all other variables in the model. School bonding, school performance, parental expectations for academic achievement, parental involvement in school, and friends’ school bonding were all standardized to a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1. Therefore we can interpret the regression coefficients as follows: For each 1 SD increase in school bonding, the odds of being a moderate smoker as compared to a nonsmoker decreased by about 13%, with similar interpretations for all other continuous school-related covariates. Because involvement with friends who dropped out of school is binary, the odds ratio indicates that the odds of being a moderate smoker as compared to a nonsmoker were about 2.4 times higher if a girl associated with friends who had dropped out of school.