Moreover, the land development initiative could have marked a potential departure from the Tidewater planter oligopoly from its slave-based tobacco-export economic base, and into more commercial, even industrial and finance, sectors
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In a report released in May, Human Rights Watch recommended that no child under the age of 18 should be permitted to perform work in which they come into direct contact with tobacco due to the inherent health risks posed by nicotine and the pesticides applied to the crop. The recommendation was based on interviews with 141 children ages 7 to 17, almost exclusively Latino, working on tobacco farms in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia in 2012 and 2013
Distinguished authorities point out: That medical research of recent years indicates many possible causes of cancer
Tobacco users need help to quit Among smokers who are aware of the dangers of tobacco, most want to quit