African Children Picking Tobacco for U.S. Smokers

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"Sometimes it feels like you don't have enough breath, you don't have enough oxygen," one child said. "You reach a point where you cannot breathe because of the pain in your chest.

In the study by the U.S. -based child rights group Plan International, children reported common symptoms of green tobacco sickness, including severe headaches, abdominal pain, muscle weakness, coughing and breathlessness.

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African Children Picking Tobacco for U.S. Smokers

Aug. 25 (GIN) - Child laborers in Malawi as young as 5 are pic...

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