Tobacco is a labor-intensive crop, and the children interviewed described participating in a range of tasks, including: planting seedlings, weeding, topping tobacco to remove flowers, removing nuisance leaves (called suckers), applying pesticides, harvesting tobacco leaves by hand or with machines, cutting tobacco plants with tobacco knives and loading them onto wooden sticks with sharp metal points, lifting sticks with several tobacco plants, hanging up and taking down sticks with tobacco plants in curing barns, and stripping and sorting dried tobacco leaves
The other aspects are mostly the same
Sometimes we sit, we refuse to work, but then they threaten us
billion individuals from 16 countries: an analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional household surveys"
These are just a few of the thousands of chemicals and constituents that comprise tobacco smoke, many of which have been identified as harmful and potentially harmful constituents (HPHCs)