In the meantime, children continue to get sick and suffer while working on tobacco farms in the US, and tobacco growers, who typically supply tobacco to more than one company, are left to negotiate between multiple, often different sets of child labor standards
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ECLT Foundation initiatives to provide children with alternatives to tobacco work include model farm schools in Tanzania, after-school education programs income-generation projects, and occupational safety and health advocacy in Malawi, holiday camps for children of tobacco workers in Kyrgyzstan, and scholarship programs in Uganda.[483] The Foundation does not carry out any projects in the United States
Patrick told Human Rights Watch about his experience harvesting burley tobacco in 2013: Ive gotten sick
It can harm parts of the adolescent brain that control attention, learning, impulse control and mood.