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Combatting Child Labour
$ 1000.00
Almost no cigarette can be guaranteed to be free from child labour. In a report issued in March 2017, the International Labor Organisation stated that ‘in tobacco growing communities, child labor is rampant=’ A Humans Rights Watch report, Tobacco’s Hidden Children - Hazardous Child Labour in the United States Tobacco Farming, that of 141 child tobacco workers (aged seven to seventeen years) from four separate US states, nearly three-quarters of the children interviewed reported symptoms of ‘green tobacco sickness.’ This sickness is caused by nicotine poisoning through the skin and includes serious symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, headaches, dizziness and breathing difficulties. Longer-term health effects related to pesticide exposure include: cancer, reproductive health issues and problems with learning and cognition. Your $1000 contribution will significantly help to achieve our vision of a world that is free from tobacco.