Report highlights child labor on US tobacco farms
Story Date: 5/14/2014

 

Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 5/14/14
 
You may have to be at least 18 to buy cigarettes in the U.S., but children as young as 7 are working long hours in fields harvesting nicotine- and pesticide-laced tobacco leaves under sometimes hazardous and sweltering conditions, according to a report released Wednesday by an international rights group.

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