(3) YA Big Business series. Each volume chronicles a major industry's history, its importance to and impact on the economy, principal players, strategic actions, and status in the twenty-first century. The insightful and informative series uses well-chosen photos, advertisements, illustrations, and related sidebars to extend the texts. A world production map is included. There are four other spring 2017 books in this series. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Big Business titles: Inside the Gold Industry, Inside the Cotton Industry, Inside the Oil Industry, and Inside the Tobacco Industry.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) YA Teen FAQ series. These overviews address the issues surrounding substance use and abuse. All the books acknowledge a social aspect to their topics, and Drugs touches on harmful versus beneficial chemical substances. Sidebars provide anecdotes, and an "Agony Aunt" advice column answers questions purportedly from real teens. The staged stock photos are unfortunate. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Teen FAQ titles: Smoking, Drugs, and Alcohol.

Reviewer: Norah Piehl

(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 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. With a fair amount of overlapping information, these books address less familiar tobacco-related issues, such as conflicting economic interests (tax revenue versus healthcare costs), fires, pollution, and secondhand smoke. The straightforward texts are accompanied by an onslaught of statistics and other facts and photos of teens and adults engaged in smoking. Hokey cartoon illustrations are distracting. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Tobacco: The Deadly Drug titles: Putting Out the Fire, Cash Crop to Cash Cow, and Burning Money.

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 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. With a fair amount of overlapping information, these books address less familiar tobacco-related issues, such as conflicting economic interests (tax revenue versus healthcare costs), fires, pollution, and secondhand smoke. The straightforward texts are accompanied by an onslaught of statistics and other facts and photos of teens and adults engaged in smoking. Hokey cartoon illustrations are distracting. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Tobacco: The Deadly Drug titles: Putting Out the Fire, Cash Crop to Cash Cow, and Burning Money.

Reviewer: Claudia Harrington DeShay

(4) YA Tobacco: The Deadly Drug series. With a fair amount of overlapping information, these books address less familiar tobacco-related issues, such as conflicting economic interests (tax revenue versus healthcare costs), fires, pollution, and secondhand smoke. The straightforward texts are accompanied by an onslaught of statistics and other facts and photos of teens and adults engaged in smoking. Hokey cartoon illustrations are distracting. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Tobacco: The Deadly Drug titles: Putting Out the Fire, Cash Crop to Cash Cow, and Burning Money.

Reviewer: Claudia Harrington DeShay

(4) 4-6 Real Deal series. Each of these lucid books starts with neutral-sounding facts before going in for the kill: unveiling its subject's dangers. The series's tone is a little less off-puttingly hysterical than other similar books intent on dissuading kids from vice. Sidebars and stock photos set in a tacky layout break up the pages. "Saying No" tips are appended. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Real Deal titles: Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) YA Busted! series. Like the others in this readable series, these books begin with scare stories starring teens, then discuss the featured drug's history and dangers plus how to kick it (Marijuana tends to overdramatize, e.g., "involvement in any sort of drug-related activity will most likely end the same way--jail time"). Many photographs (some stiffly posed) appear throughout. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Busted! titles: Nicotine = Busted! and Marijuana = Busted!

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) YA Teen Issues series. These books devoted to three common addictive substances aren't scolds: the authors show compassion for affected teens, especially in sections describing social and cultural pressures that foster addictions. Unfortunately, the layouts, which bombard the reader with sidebars, keyword definitions, graphics, thought and dialogue balloons, and photos of adolescents ostensibly grappling with addiction, seem like a bad trip. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Teen Issues titles: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) YA Drugs, the Straight Facts series. The books in this cautionary series succeed because they are lucid, well organized, and filled with color photos, charts, graphs, diagrams, lists (e.g., "Famous Dead Smokers"), and other visuals that both break up the text and reinforce the just-say-no message. The authors only lose traction with the melodramatically written anecdotes designed to scare readers straight. Addresses, reading list, websites. Bib., ind. [Review covers these Drugs, the Straight Facts titles: Heroin, Hallucinogens, Cocaine, and Nicotine.]

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) YA Landmark Supreme Court Cases series. This volume focuses on the Supreme Court case concerning whether or not cigarette companies are protected from litigation by warning labels mandated by federal law. The text contains clear and useful background information on previous cases, explanations of the legal issues, and a discussion of repercussions of the case. Charts, graphs, and black-and-white photos illustrate the book. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

(4) YA Just the Facts series. The history and sources of each drug and its physical, emotional, and behavioral effects on the user, friends, family, and society are described. Current and proposed legal issues and stories of real-life users (John Belushi, Ben Johnson) ground the facts in reality. Up-to-date photos and multicolored pages add to the busy design and make some sidebars difficult to read. There are four other books in this series. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) YA Perspectives on Physical Health series. These books resist preaching to get information across as they examine some of the reasons why teenagers drink, abuse drugs, and smoke; what the risks of these behaviors are; and how to get help. Testimonials from teens are inserted in the choppily written texts, and sidebars address myths, facts, and warning signs. Color photos and a list of related addresses and websites are included in each book. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Amanda Sullivan