Tobacco farms are poisoning 17-year-olds in North Carolina
Story Date: 12/10/2015

 

Source: TAKE PART, 12/9/15

When the nausea hits, it feels unlike any other kind of sickness. Teenage farmworkers say the symptoms include headaches, dizziness, and a sour taste in the mouth. Doctors have a diagnosis for it: nicotine poisoning, or the illness that infects laborers when they absorb tobacco's active ingredient through their skin. 

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