packing, grading and tying tobacco leaves into crate or bales for transport to market, storage.[303] According to ECLT Foundation Executive Director Sonia Velasquez, ECLT also believes that not all activities in tobacco growing are hazardous or prohibited for children and recommends that farmers provide decent work for youth of legally working age, whenever allowed by the national laws.[304] Seven of the ten companies approached by Human Rights Watch for this project serve on the board of the ECLT Foundation.[305] Convention on the Rights of the Child The United States has signed but not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC),[306] but as a signatory is obliged to refrain from acts that would defeat the treatys object and purpose.[307] The CRC sets out the minimum protections to which childrendefined as persons under age 18are entitled
Nicotine, which is found in cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products, is highly addictive
I think tobacco has been singled out unfairly. In late November, the litigator Stanley Arkin, one of more than a dozen lawyers working for B&W to head off the Justice Departments investigation into the tobacco industry, recommended that B&W hire public-relations man John Scanlon and Terry Lenzner, the former Watergate deputy counsel who is the head of Investigative Group Inc., a firm that specializes in legal work for corporate takeovers
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