Did you know about, and how do you feel about, the fact that according to US law, children as young as 12 can work up to 12 hours per day picking tobacco?

I heard about this today on NPR.

Up to 12 hours per day, as young as 12 years old, children can work picking tobacco as long as it doesn’t interfere with their school work.

Buses pick them up at 5 or 6 a.m., they start in the fields at 6 or 7 a.m. and they work till 6 or 7 at night.

Did you know about this law?

How do you feel about this law?

What I heard on the radio was that the children get sick from the nicotine, especially after it has rained.