(4) YA Tobacco: The Deadly Drug series. This series investigates adverse health effects and other aspects (physiological, social, psychological) of tobacco use by teens. Personal accounts and other examples (as well as many statistics) illuminate issues such as addiction, depression, and peer pressure. Photographs of teens engaging in typical activities should help readers connect to the messages; the hokey cartoons throughout will not. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Tobacco: The Deadly Drug titles: No More Butts, But All My Friends Smoke, Born to Smoke, But Smoking Makes Me Happy, False Images, Deadly Promises, Thousands of Deadly Chemicals, Smokeless Tobacco, and Teenagers and Tobacco.

Reviewer: Claudia Harrington DeShay

(4) YA Tobacco: The Deadly Drug series. This series investigates adverse health effects and other aspects (physiological, social, psychological) of tobacco use by teens. Personal accounts and other examples (as well as many statistics) illuminate issues such as addiction, depression, and peer pressure. Photographs of teens engaging in typical activities should help readers connect to the messages; the hokey cartoons throughout will not. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Tobacco: The Deadly Drug titles: No More Butts, But All My Friends Smoke, Born to Smoke, But Smoking Makes Me Happy, False Images, Deadly Promises, Thousands of Deadly Chemicals, Smokeless Tobacco, and Teenagers and Tobacco.

Reviewer: Claudia Harrington DeShay

(4) YA Tobacco: The Deadly Drug series. This series investigates adverse health effects and other aspects (physiological, social, psychological) of tobacco use by teens. Personal accounts and other examples (as well as many statistics) illuminate issues such as addiction, depression, and peer pressure. Photographs of teens engaging in typical activities should help readers connect to the messages; the hokey cartoons throughout will not. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Tobacco: The Deadly Drug titles: No More Butts, But All My Friends Smoke, Born to Smoke, But Smoking Makes Me Happy, False Images, Deadly Promises, Thousands of Deadly Chemicals, Smokeless Tobacco, and Teenagers and Tobacco.

Reviewer: Claudia Harrington DeShay

(4) YA Antidepressants series. This coherent series relates the basics about depression. It spotlights personal experiences, sometimes in the form of formulaically written running narratives (e.g., in Advertising, teenager Annette considers using antidepressants to help cope with her mother's death) and often accompanied by stiff staged photos. Each spread features a sidebar, chart, or photo to help break up the text. There are eight other fall 2006 books in the series. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Antidepressants titles: Antidepressants and Advertising, Antidepressants and Social Anxiety, Antidepressants and Suicide, The History of Depression, and "Natural" Alternatives to Antidepressants.

Reviewer: Nell Beram