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Political Factoid
Children as young as seven
years old work in the tobacco
fields of North Carolina,
Kentucky, Tennessee and
Virginia.
Children as young as
12 can legally do farm
work there.
The majority are children of
Hispanic immigrants living in
the area, and work 50 to 60
hours a week.
Tobacco companies deny any
responsibility for wrongdoing,
by subcontracting the work to
parents ... who can then have
their children do the farm
work for unlimited hours.
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