...article: Children working on tobacco farms in the United States are exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, and other dangers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. While US law prohibits the sale of tobacco products to children, children can legally work on tobacco farms in the US. The world’s largest tobacco companies buy tobacco grown on US farms, but none have child labor policies that sufficiently protect children from hazardous work. The 138-page report, “Tobacco’s Hidden Children: Hazardous Child Labor in US Tobacco Farming,” documents conditions for children working on tobacco farms in four states where 90 percent of US tobacco is grown: North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Children reported vomiting, nausea, headaches, and dizziness while working on tobacco farms, all symptoms consistent with acute nicotine poisoning. Many also said they worked long hours without overtime pay, often in extreme heat without shade or sufficient breaks, and wore no, or inadequate, protective gear. “As the school year ends, children are heading into the tobacco fields, where they can’t avoid being exposed to dangerous nicotine, without smoking a single cigarette” said Margaret Wurth, children’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch and co-author of the report. “It’s no surprise the children exposed to poisons in the tobacco fields are getting sick.” The report is based on interviews with 141 child tobacco workers, ages seven to 17 | Children working...
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...fact that there was cash crops. America’s first cash crop was tobacco. Tobacco was shipped from a young English colony in Jamestown in a ship named Elizabeth, bound for London. It included four barrels of tobacco, about four thousand pounds. These four few barrels changed the whole...
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...Patrick Henry was born on May 29, 1736 in Hanover County, Virginia. He was the second of nine children. He didn't go to school, but he was thoroughly taught by his father and uncle. His father was John Winston Henry; an immigrant from Scotland. Henry’s parents worshiped at different churches. This had a strong impact on his character and political views. Since his parents practiced different religions, he fused both together more modern views with old fashioned views, to create his own neutral perspectives. Patrick Henry was a lawyer, patriot, and politician. He participated in almost every aspect of founding America. Henry married Sarah Shelton in 1754, and then Dorothea Dandridge in 1777, following Sarah’s Death. He had seventeen children...
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...Allen HIST 111 October 5, 2015 Diaries written by Jane Arnold-Walker: 1611-1667 The Life of Jane Arnold-Walker: Growing Up in the 1600’s #1 The Purpose I have decided to start a diary that will be passed down from generation to generation within my family line. This diary is a compilation of little letters I used to write myself telling me what happened that week or month. Now that I am old and sick I want to have something that I can pass down through generations. I want not only my children, but their children, and their children, and so on to have something to remember me and the life I lived during the 1600’s. Within my diary will be highlights of my early life and where I came from, my young adult years and work I did in order to survive, my immediate family, and accounts I have on important events that happened during my life. Years from now, future generations will have written evidence of what life was like for someone living in the 1600’s. I only hope that one of my children will take on the responsibility of finishing this diary after I have passed so that it will have a complete beginning and end. #2 Where I Come From I was born August 13, 1611 to the parents of James and Anne Arnold in the colony, Virginia. Both my mother and father were considered highly educated at the time. My father was an investor and was part of the first expedition to Jamestown in hopes of finding gold and exotic crops. He was ordered to go by King James and the Virginia Company of London...
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...From his autobiography, it states that the young children were hired out from their mothers when they were 12-month-old. The relationship between their owners and parents were not good and women would generally be abused and the white owner’s wife forcibly sell black slaves children or else they would be whipped and tied out in the cold by their white brothers. The hunger during this period was high as they would eat food, called “MUSH” which was mashed corn meal and children were forced to eat like pigs, where healthy and strong among them get the good spot and the others get enough to be satisfied. Douglass life changing moment was when he moved from plantation. His life got better, as he felt a little freedom and could get himself educated. The similarities between the colonial labor and experiences of Douglas were both of these events went to slavery, had work mostly for elite white owners and were provided with food and clothes in the master’s farms but not in the plantations, they were not treated equally and often sustain...
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...experienced successful tobacco plantation. The settler came to Chesapeake for different reasons some left England because of religious liberty, some for business and others in search of good life. The settlor of Chesapeake was lazy the Government made a law that whoever doesn't work don’t eat. The Chesapeake region consists of Jamestown, Carolina, Maryland and some other colonies. Tobacco was their major investment. They exported tobacco to European countries because the Europeans love smoking and they also used tobacco for medical purposes, because of this, the demand for tobacco was high. The Chesapeake dwellers...
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...35th and 45th parallels. The Chesapeake and New England colonies would emerge as the cornerstones of America. The two colonies navigated the world in sight of different objectives, but ultimately through their economic triumphs and the social and political hardships, these colonies would eventually develop into stability. In an effort to financially benefit Europe, the Chesapeake colony settler’s main objectives were to find gold, silver, a cure for syphilis and a passageway to Asia. The New England colony differed from that of the Chesapeake colony as their main purpose as separatists were to pursue the freedom to worship. After spending nearly a decade in the Netherlands, although fulfilling religious goals, they realized that their children were becoming more Dutch than English. They sold all the land they owned in Europe to finance their voyage for free worship. Nonetheless, both colonies journey was funded by the London Company to make their initial voyage. Even though the mission was different for both colonies they both shared a detrimental first winter. Both colonies also relied on native Indian support for supplies and food to ensure survival. Farming was absolutely essential for both colonies to master, and quickly. Religion was found in both colonies and played a serious role in society. In Jamestown you would find Protestants and Catholics, while Plymouth was made up of Puritans in the very beginning. The geographical differences will play a heavy role in how both...
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...Running head: MARKETING KILLER PRODUCT Marketing Killer Product Blake E. Lance Lubbock Christian University Tobacco is a nasty, horrible, addictive drug in any form or fashion. I feel that it is one of the leading drugs in America and it is legal. Legal or not there is to many American's addicted to tobacco, whether you chew it, or smoke it. If it was illegal people would farm it, sell it, just like any other drug in America, believe the government legalized it just to be able to tax the tobacco and gain a very large profit off of it. The government raises the prices as if the drug addicted people are going to quit, its just more money in uncle sam's pocket, knowing that the people are addicted to tobacco. Tobacco company's will never stop selling tobacco because they know that there is to many people addicted to it and if they did not sell it, there competitor will and why loose out on all that money. Even tho, predictions are that one billion people world wide will die this century from smoking related ailments, (Armstrong/Kotler 11th edition p. 34.) Its legal and the tobacco company's know there is a very high demand for the product. There may be a few of the big bosses in these big tobacco company's have a little conscience and moral fiber in themselves but the big almighty dollars stands in their way. Therefore I think it will never stop the money is to good and there is way to many American's and foreign people addicted to it. Cigarette marketers will continue...
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...Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The field of responsible business practice is one of the most dynamic and challenging subjects corporate leaders face today. It is argued that socially responsible behaviour can pay off in the long run, even where it involves some short-term sacrifice of profit. CSR has been pioneered over the last two decades by the oil, chemical and tobacco industries due to their attempt to win back social respectability by changing their image. In this report, shall discuss how British American Tobacco plc (BAT), as one of the biggest tobacco companies in the world, allows their businesses to manage the economic, social and environmental effect of their operations to maximise the benefits and minimise the problems. The tobacco industry contributes largely to the economies of over 150 countries, and there are more than 100 million people all over the world dependent on them for employment, which is more than 20 times the population of Singapore. Taxes for the tobacco industry are the main foundation of revenue for almost every government in the world. This revenue gathered from the tobacco company is then used by the government...
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...homemaker, mother to children, and many other domestic tasks. Agriculture, specifically tobacco in the Chesapeake Region, shaped the identity in the South through land, labor, and social distinctions. When colonists first arrived in the New World, they had no knowledge of their surroundings. The Native Americans were...
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...profit. They did not intend to establish a functioning society. The primary motives for settlement in the New England colony were by Puritan Separatists who sought religious freedom where they would be free to practice as they wish instead of under the watchful eye of the Church of England. The settlers that survived the voyage to Chesapeake from Europe learned from the local Powhatan Indians the process of corn and tobacco growing. With the expansion of the tobacco industry, plantation owners relied on the cheap labor of slaves and indentured servants. Only because the tobacco...
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...Amish Cultural Research Paper Imagine living in a society where the members socialize exclusively with each other and not with the outside world. The men of this society dress conservatively in dark colors sporting clean-shave until married when they switch to beards. The women, wearing only full skirts, wear their hair up in a bun and covered with a simple white cap or bonnet. The community, called an ordnung, decides how the community will be run from state to state. The culture itself keeps an arms distance from technology because they believe that it weakens the structure of the family. Planting and sowing of the fields is done by using horse drawn machinery and very rarely does the hum of anything fuel powered echo from the farms. Intermarriages are kept within the genetically isolated society to include first cousins and divorce is not tolerated. The Amish are a horticultural-based culture that consists of a society that is very conservative and strong on religion. The intent of this paper is to focus on the Amish culture, their primary mode of subsistence, and to identify three aspects of it impacted by this mode. History The Amish are a peace-loving, upright, religious group of people, settled happily in different parts of the United States and Canada. They disregard the modern way of life and are content to live their lives preparing for death and heavenly rewards by going without modern conveniences, such as electricity. However, despite their simple...
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...creates an façade in order to receive higher prices for their tobacco in a tobacco field. The author uses various literary elements in order to underscore the theme of economic hardships. One way the author conveys economic hardships is through the use of characterization. This is evident in the characterization of the dad: “- he looks away, as if the buyers are a common, bland species of a bird on an otherwise more exciting safari.” Here, it shows the dads’ character. It is implied that he seems to making a manipulative ploy, which suggests that he doesn’t need the buyers to accept his product. Furthermore, another evidence which explores the dads’ character is evident in: “If dad disagrees with the price the buyer has offered, he tears the ticket.” Here, it shows that the father has a specific...
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...cotton gin gave birth to the mass production of cotton in America after 1793, it also had its negative effects. Before 1793, the need for slaves was beginning to diminish. Slaves cost so much to maintain that the plantation owners were suffering loss of profit since tobacco was being greatly overproduced. With the cotton gin, cotton could be refined with ease, yet plantation owners still needed laborers to pick the cotton, causing the need for even more slavery. The number of slaves on every plantation and farm skyrocketed in America after the cotton gin’s invention. Life for southern slaves was very difficult to deal with at this time, no matter if it were on a large plantation or a small farm. However, the life of a plantation slave had more structure as opposed to the life of a farm slave....
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...A. What stakeholders are affected by the U.S. tobacco industry's production and marketing of cigarettes? What stakeholder interests are impacted? How does the tobacco industry prioritize these stakeholders? Do you agree with the tobacco industry's prioritization? Why or why not? According to Wikipedia, a stakeholder is defined as a person, group, organization, member or system who affects or can be affected by an organization’s actions. There are several stakeholders that have been affected by the U.S. tobacco industry’s production and marketing of cigarettes. The retail tobacco companies are one such group that is undoubtedly affected by the developments affecting the production and marketing of cigarettes. Companies like Phillip Morris USA, Inc., RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company and British American Tobacco Limited who are interesting in profit maximization and return on investment felt that they were unfairly targeted by the imposition of restricted marketing activities and efforts to reduce the consumption of cigarettes. The tobacco companies believe that the law is excessive and will result in an increase in the cost of modifying packages and inversely, a reduction in net profit. The state (government) is also affected by the issues surrounding the tobacco industry. The government is faced with a slight dilemma because they are the regulator of the industry and the product is a legal product which is known to be harmful to both smokers and non-smokers. The industry also contributes...
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