Peddling Poison: The Tobacco Industry and Kids

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Youth Tobacco Use: The Health Effects, Trends in Smoking Rates, and Reasons Why Kids Use Tobacco; Marketing Tobacco Products to Youth; The FDA Investigation of Big Tobacco; Tobacco Litigation and the Master Settlement; Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs; Youth Tobacco Prevention Organizations; The Future of Tobacco Control.

Portrait

Clete Snell is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Prairie View A&M University. He teaches Criminology, Delinquency Theory, Juvenile Justice, and Criminal Justice courses. He has published several journal articles.

Pressestimmen

"[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." - Choice