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Children working on Zimbabwe’s tobacco farms are exposed to nicotine and toxic pesticides, and many suffer symptoms consistent with nicotine poisoning from handling tobacco leaves. Adults working on tobacco farms also face serious health risks and labor abuses.
This Zimbabwean tobacco farmer sold his crop to a big tobacco company for 7 years. No one warned him - or his kids - about nicotine poisoning.
“When we’re hanging tobacco, we normally feel weak or vomit, and get a headache and dizziness,” he said.
Fourteen demonstrators in Gaza were killed and hundreds injured last Friday. Israeli soldiers were not merely using excessive force, but were apparently acting on orders that all but ensured a bloody military response to the Palestinian demonstrations.
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