"Child tobacco farmers 'exposed to toxic levels of nicotine'"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/25/child.tobacco.picking/index.html
Horrifying. Irrefutably sad. Heart-breakingly tragic. Simply enraging. All words that could describe the topic of this article, and yet none seem to do the tragedy justice. These poor children, forced to work 12 hour back-breaking workdays for 17 cents a day in order to eat and go to school, wrongfully suffer enough. Now there is evidence that these child nicotine harvesters can be absorbing nicotine that equates to nearly 50 cigarettes per day. Simple solutions such as clean clothes and breaks to wash hands could help elimate the effects of this problem. Has anyone in power truly taken initiative to improve the children's work conditions? It's hard to believe so when there are reports of abuse such as this, reports that include direct evidence and interviews with the children themselves. Do these tobacco companies have even the slightest sense of integrity or consciousness? Clearly, they do not.
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