Child Safety: Young Children Toil in Tobacco Fields

A shocking report by Human Rights Watch has documented how children as young as 12 toil long hours in tobacco fields, exempt from child labor protections. Children have even fallen ill due to cases of acute nicotine poisoning.

The Daily Show highlighted the absurdity of the situation in their report on the industry’s use of child labor.

Nonprofits and NGOs are taking action — the Child Labor Coalition was joined by a group of over 50 organization recently sent a letter to tobacco executives, calling on them to ensure their products are not produced with child labor.

TAKE ACTION: sign the petition to tobacco executives calling on them to stop the use of child labor.

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on July 3, 2014