Kids as young as 12 can be recruited to work on tobacco farms where they're exposed to toxic tobacco plants containing nicotine. I introduced legislation to put an end to this disgraceful labor practice and protect these kids before it’s too late. - ThreadSky

durbin.senate.gov • 2 days ago

Kids as young as 12 can be recruited to work on tobacco farms where they're exposed to toxic tobacco plants containing nicotine.

I introduced legislation to put an end to this disgraceful labor practice and protect these kids before it’s too late.

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charleybrown.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was picking tobacco when I was 9, by hand.

abbykbhomesleak.bsky.social•2 days ago

People will be paid $5K to have a child. Some will be forced to have children, & those children do not need to be educated. Instead the parents can receive $9K per year to do as they please. Maybe send them to some kind of church instead, & then send them to work at 12? Sounds like exploitation.

clintboz.bsky.social•2 days ago

Jesus H Christ do something useful. This is not a national priority and it wont pass anyway because the red states love tobacco and child labor.

gdalander.bsky.social•2 days ago

But they still get the free cigarettes at school, right?

jessbheart.bsky.social•2 days ago

why the fuck can't you people stop lying to the public?

hattiejosh.bsky.social•1 day ago

If Dick didn't lie, he'd have nothing to say at all

starofwesttx.bsky.social•2 days ago

This shouldn't be happening. This is what a Republican control produces.

pamelajbus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Henrietta Lacks’ tobacco exposure cancer cells that never die have been the foundation of cancer research for many years. I had no idea Senator. 12yrs old. & surely NO PPE

jdhattin.bsky.social•2 days ago

We’re gonna run out of brown people, we need kids in the fields.

bonesoldier.bsky.social•2 days ago

Republicans will be trying to block that legislation by this afternoon. So that they can go back to pretending to be "pro-family," and "pro-life."

mariecummins.bsky.social•2 days ago

While I am for stricter child labor laws, IL isn’t exactly a booming tobacco producing state (a quick google states it’s practically nonexistent) This feels performative & is ignoring the real threats of healthcare cuts that Trump is pushing through Congress right now. Use your remaining time wiser

truth-n-science.bsky.social•2 days ago

omg the regulations on using nicotine are intense, so to totally forget them when wading in fields of it is insane.

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