NPR story: Kids are harvesting the tobacco for cigarettes and getting sick doing it

Outstanding story from NPR today; really powerful stuff. Listen to the NPR report here. Kids, some as young as 12 years old, are helping to harvest tobacco crops through much of the South. NPR interviewed Eddie Ramirez, a Honduran kid who picks tobacco with his migrant family in the South: “In the mornings, tobacco is … Continue reading NPR story: Kids are harvesting the tobacco for cigarettes and getting sick doing it