WASHINGTON – Two years after the Obama administration backed off a rule that would have banned children from dangerous agriculture jobs, public health advocates and lawmakers are trying anew to get ...
Nick Uchneat has spent the summers farming tobacco since he was 9 years old. He initially started by tagging along with his ...
Children as young as seven are legally working on U.S. tobacco farms, and the practice is, not surprisingly, harming their the health. In a 138-page report titled "Tobacco's Hidden Children," ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An international rights group is pushing the federal government and the tobacco industry to take further steps to protect children working on U.S. tobacco farms. A report released ...
When Grant Jeffrey Garst was in high school, he started doing just what his daddy and grandfather had done before him: growing tobacco. Now he’s 28 years old with a wife, an 18-month-old daughter, and ...
PROBOLINGGO, Indonesia (Reuters) - Thirteen-year-old Siti Maryam says she suffers headaches and nausea after harvesting tobacco leaves with her bare hands during four years of working on her family's ...
Twenty years ago today, the quota system that guaranteed tobacco prices for U.S. farmers ended. Since then, tobacco farms in Kentucky have all but disappeared. Here's Lily Burris with member station ...
LITITZ, Pa. -- The straw-hatted farmer and a helper deftly cut away stalks of the light-green tobacco so they fell neatly in a row, ready to be speared onto drying racks. "Without tobacco, I wouldn't ...
OXFORD — The Granville Gold Mock Tobacco Event will feature a live reenactment of a tobacco auction on Sunday, Sept. 28, from 2-5 p.m. at Carlee Farms. History and agricultural buffs will not want to ...
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