Children working on tobacco farms in the United States are exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, and other dangers…The tobacco grown on US farms is purchased by the largest tobacco companies in the world…Human Rights Watch interviewed 141 child tobacco workers, ages 7 to 17…Nearly three-quarters of the children interviewed…reported the sudden onset of serious symptoms…Many of these symptoms are consistent with acute nicotine poisoning…Human Rights Watch believes that no child under age 18 should be permitted to perform work in which they come into direct contact with tobacco in any form…due to the inherent health risks posed by nicotine and the pesticides applied to the crop…[Refers to Alliance One, Altria, British American Tobacco, China National Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, Lorillard Tobacco (part of Carolina Group), Philip Morris International, Reynolds American & Universal Corporation]