MADE IN THE USA: Child Labor & Tobacco
(May 14, 2014) Child labor is common on tobacco farms in the United States, where children are exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, and other dangers. Child tobacco workers often get sick with vomiting, nausea, headaches, and dizziness while working, all symptoms consistent with acute nicotine poisoning. Many work 50 to 60 hours a week without overtime pay, often in extreme heat. They may be exposed to pesticides that are known neurotoxins. Many also use dangerous tools and machinery, lift heavy loads, and climb to perilous heights to hang tobacco for drying. The largest tobacco companies in the world purchase tobacco grown in the US to make popular cigarette brands like Marlboro, Newport, Camel, Pall Mall and others. These companies can't legally sell cigarettes to children, but they are profiting from child labor. US law also fails these children, by allowing them to work at much younger ages, for longer hours, and under more hazardous conditions than children working in all other sectors. Children as young as 12 can work legally on tobacco farms and at even younger ages on small farms. http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/14/us-child-workers-danger-tobacco-farms
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stop smoking.
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if there is so
miny homles adults then why not have them work the filds (not elders) whil the kids get there school in...seaying the condition thees kids are working in is sad and angering...the fakt the compinys can let this hapin and call it safe is just upseting...thay need to fix this now -
I noticed thesed hispanics have a southern accent when they speak English, interesting.
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Don't hear about sickness caused from harvesting marijuana plants... food for thought.
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fucking crazy i'm loving tobacco as cigar and everytime i'm working in my tobacco garden i'm feeling the tobacco toxic, god help them, i'm i'm living in Canada and it's my production , it's my fucking own choice to pick my own fucking tobacco to make my cigars, but child don't have to deal with this fucking shit.
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i work too when i child
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Children should not be able to work on these farms until they are 18. The tobacco companies are very exploitative. They can also pay their workers living wages because they are a multi-billion dollar industries.
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at school i read the article about them, and the teacher is planning for all of us students to write letter to the white house to stop this so i hope they will ban it
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I still work in it and I don't have any of these problems
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im sorry I did,nt meen mis ashleyb82 I got confused I did,nt meen her I ment the mf called Heisenberg o67berg you look like a fucking isis bitch I would love to kill you if it was worth it,maybe you might find the fbi knocking at your door tomorrow because the way you look u bitch fuc u.
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ashlyb 82 I would probably kill you if I could get to you you are evil and you think your tough you should see what others are going threw because of smoking cigs you would not even live threw the test they have to take to find out if they are sick you pussy boy I hate u bitch u sob.
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I won't be buying baci.
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i worked in tobacco at 13 i need money for nike shoes that my dad would not buy made money for my first car didnt get sick ,,,bleeding heart s stop the bad tobacco this country was built with tobacco so shut the f%$*k up
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Haha stupid liberal propaganda trying to make farmers look bad. That's what it's like to work on a farm, you either grow up or get out 😂
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I am from Florida and I worked in the tobacco fields when I was a child.
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So glad my parents gave me the chance to work on a tobacco farm as a kid. I learned at a young age the value of a dollar and become the responsible adult I am today.
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I seriously doubt the validity of this video. there are labor laws passed 70 or 80 years ago to prevent child labor- child labor law and a large portion of that tobacco isn't for cigarettes. cigarettes contain almost no tobacco. it is a shredded paper that has been soaked in a complex chemical potion. this is why they are so addictive and carcinogenic. I know this from first hand experiance as a 25 year cigarette smoker who occasionally smokes a pipe or a cigar. Stop demonizing the entire tobacco industry just because of the subhuman actions of the cigarette companies. What about the cigar tobacco farms in Central America? the farmers there get free health care, day care and school, all payed for by the cigar companies. stop your rhetorical BS! get your facts straight instead of brainwashing people into thinking what you want them to think😐
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trust me, i get the reality this video presents but
1) corp can grow their crop not in U.S. where there is no complain
2) robots don't get tired or sick, can work high and low, and they are replaceable
3) this is a tobacco field, not a field of candies, do you really expect it to be safe?
i don't have any solution but
look at the bright side, minimum wage 15hr / per hour is coming up -
If this was a third world hellhole like Africa I can understand acting like an animal there but this is the United States of America the richest nation in the world absolutely unacceptable in an advanced Constitutional Republic of we the people
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