We suspect that these firms did not want to be associated with selling an addictive substance, especially one with a reputation as unsavory as nicotines
These companies stated that their policies for tobacco purchasing in countries outside of the US were consistent with international law, including with regard to a minimum age of 15 for entry into work under the ILO Minimum Age Convention, with the exception of certain light work, and a prohibition on hazardous work for children under 18, unless national laws afford greater protections
I repeatedly talked to the local kids to see if I could source fresh cockroaches from them, but there was no such dialogue option
Most families did not have this option, and in households without access to deep wells, where arsenic-contaminated shallow wells were abandoned in favor of surface water, child mortality rose by 46 percent [2]
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