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2014년 5월 14일

저자:
Charlie Campbell, Time (USA)

Young Children Are Getting Sick Working on U.S. Tobacco Farms

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A new Human Rights Watch report finds that child laborers, some as young as 7 years old, who work on tobacco farms in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, "get so sick that they throw up, get covered by pesticides and have no real protective gear"…Children…are suffering serious health problem from toiling long hours in tobacco fields to harvest pesticide-laced leaves for major cigarette brands…Human Rights Watch (HRW) interviewed more than 140 youngsters…They reported nausea, vomiting, headaches and other health problems associated with nicotine poisoning, known colloquially as green tobacco sickness, which is common among agricultural workers who absorb the toxic substance through their skin…While strict provisions govern child labor in industrial environments, U.S. agriculture labor laws are much looser, allowing 12-year-olds to labor for unlimited hours…on any size of farm. On small farms, there is no minimum age…

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