Dermal exposure to pesticides constitutes the major route of pesticide exposure for agricultural workers, with the hands often accounting for most of the dermal exposure (Popendorf et al., 1979; Zwieg ...

A worker drives a mechanical harvester plucking tobacco leaves from stalks in a field in northeastern Wake County in 2020. Scott Sharpe [email protected] After more than four centuries of ...

In a dusty, aromatic tobacco barn, Juan B. Salas, 35, of San Sebastian, P.R., is almost too busy to talk. It is 3:30 p.m., and his workday began at 6 a.m., in a tobacco field, where the shade tobacco ...

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Ideally, tobacco should be outlawed. But as long as people continue to use the deadly stuff, those who harvest it for the great profit of tobacco companies deserve far better than the miserable pay ...