Clete Snell is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston-Downtown.

[S]nell has compiled a well-organized, concise overview of the issues surrounding the US tobacco industry's interest in young consumers. After an introduction in which he presents statistics on teen smoking and details the efforts of tobacco companies to induce young people to smoke, Snell devotes most of the book to describing community and government efforts to combat the industry's campaign. This discussion focuses on the FDA's investigation of the tobacco industry in the 1990s, individual and class action lawsuits over the past 50 years, and anti-smoking programs and organizations that Snell sees as models. Not all of the events he chronicles--such as the lawsuits--pertain directly to youth, but the author consistently relates this information back to the subject of children by revealing the impact such events had on the fight against adolescent smoking. Snell does not claim to be even-handed, and he is not; the tobacco industry is clearly the villain in this story. Nevertheless, he does a fine job of presenting the challenges and successes of those who seek to protect the young against the dangers of tobacco. Recommended. General and undergraduate collections.

• Youth Tobacco Use: The Health Effects, Trends in Smoking Rates, and Reasons Why Kids Use TobaccoMarketing Tobacco Products to YouthThe FDA Investigation of Big TobaccoTobacco Litigation and the Master SettlementComprehensive Tobacco Control ProgramsYouth Tobacco Prevention OrganizationsThe Future of Tobacco Control

Clete Snell is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston-Downtown.

[S]nell has compiled a well-organized, concise overview of the issues surrounding the US tobacco industry's interest in young consumers. After an introduction in which he presents statistics on teen smoking and details the efforts of tobacco companies to induce young people to smoke, Snell devotes most of the book to describing community and government efforts to combat the industry's campaign. This discussion focuses on the FDA's investigation of the tobacco industry in the 1990s, individual and class action lawsuits over the past 50 years, and anti-smoking programs and organizations that Snell sees as models. Not all of the events he chronicles--such as the lawsuits--pertain directly to youth, but the author consistently relates this information back to the subject of children by revealing the impact such events had on the fight against adolescent smoking. Snell does not claim to be even-handed, and he is not; the tobacco industry is clearly the villain in this story. Nevertheless, he does a fine job of presenting the challenges and successes of those who seek to protect the young against the dangers of tobacco. Recommended. General and undergraduate collections.

• Youth Tobacco Use: The Health Effects, Trends in Smoking Rates, and Reasons Why Kids Use TobaccoMarketing Tobacco Products to YouthThe FDA Investigation of Big TobaccoTobacco Litigation and the Master SettlementComprehensive Tobacco Control ProgramsYouth Tobacco Prevention OrganizationsThe Future of Tobacco Control

Clete Snell is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston-Downtown.

[S]nell has compiled a well-organized, concise overview of the issues surrounding the US tobacco industry's interest in young consumers. After an introduction in which he presents statistics on teen smoking and details the efforts of tobacco companies to induce young people to smoke, Snell devotes most of the book to describing community and government efforts to combat the industry's campaign. This discussion focuses on the FDA's investigation of the tobacco industry in the 1990s, individual and class action lawsuits over the past 50 years, and anti-smoking programs and organizations that Snell sees as models. Not all of the events he chronicles--such as the lawsuits--pertain directly to youth, but the author consistently relates this information back to the subject of children by revealing the impact such events had on the fight against adolescent smoking. Snell does not claim to be even-handed, and he is not; the tobacco industry is clearly the villain in this story. Nevertheless, he does a fine job of presenting the challenges and successes of those who seek to protect the young against the dangers of tobacco. Recommended. General and undergraduate collections.

• Youth Tobacco Use: The Health Effects, Trends in Smoking Rates, and Reasons Why Kids Use TobaccoMarketing Tobacco Products to YouthThe FDA Investigation of Big TobaccoTobacco Litigation and the Master SettlementComprehensive Tobacco Control ProgramsYouth Tobacco Prevention OrganizationsThe Future of Tobacco Control