Peddling Poison: The Tobacco Industry and Kids (Criminal Justice, Delinquency, and Corrections Series)
The social acceptance of tobacco use obscures the fact that it is the single greatest preventable cause of death in the U.S., and approximately 80% of those who use tobacco products began using them before the age of 18. Indeed, tobacco companies in the past routinely targeted youth in their marketing and advertising, hoping to hook kids young and keep them with their original brand. Snell explores the tobacco industry's campaign to attract youth smokers and provides an overview of the FDA's...
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Some 80 percent of those who use tobacco as adults began before they were 18. However, funds from the Master Settlement with the tobacco industry have enabled many states to develop anti-smoking programs that have resulted in a substantial decline in youth tobacco use. Snell (criminal justice, U. of Houston-Downtown) looks at big tobacco's history of hooking kids and summarizes the FDA's investigation of the industry's deceptive practices. He shows that the future of youth tobacco policy depends on the continued funding of prevention programs at the state and local level, and demonstrates how the industry is shifting its marketing approach to minority populations and developing nations. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Foreword1Youth tobacco use : the health effects, trends in smoking rates, and reasons why kids use tobacco12Marketing tobacco products to youth193The FDA investigation of big tobacco374Tobacco litigation and the master settlement615Comprehensive tobacco control programs796Youth tobacco prevention organizations1017The future of tobacco control119
\ From the Publisher"[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\ \ \
