One more reason to quit smoking...
Malawi's Child Tobacco Laborers
Reports have surfaced that thousands of children in Malawi who work on tobacco plantations are poisoned by absorbing nicotine through their skin -- equivalent to smoking 50 cigarettes per day. Their small bodies are less able to metabolize the drug than adults, so the children suffer from nausea, vomiting, weakness, headaches, abdominal pain, and difficulty breathing. Poverty and hunger forces families to send their children to work on tobacco plantations, where they earn only 20 cents for a 12-hour day. Pray for the 80,000 children in southern African countries who work on tobacco plantations -- may economic opportunities be afforded to each family, so that children have the chance to go to school instead of working in unsafe conditions.
