Why does Philip Morris USAs Youth Smoking Prevention department release TABS information?
We believe that businesses, youth-serving organizations, the public health community, policy makers, educators and parents need to work together toward our common goal of preventing the underage use of cigarettes and other tobacco products. To that end, we release the TABS data so that others committed to youth smoking prevention can use the information as a resource in the development and design of studies, programs and communications that help to prevent youth smoking and other risky behaviors. We also provide access to the TABS respondent-level dataset in order to enable independent researchers to run their own statistical analyses and cross-tabulations of the TABS survey results.