Oxfam and FLOC conducted a joint study of the tobacco industry’s impact on the human rights of farmworkers in the fields of North Carolina. One in four—22 out of the 86 workers interviewed—reported ...

In some ways he was a lucky man. To be sure, finding yourself in bondage on a Virginia tobacco plantation was not the result of good luck, but Anthony Johnson would rise above his low status and ...

Tobacco is the country’s single second largest foreign currency earning export product after gold and the Government is keen ...

A statewide initiative provides mental health services for farm families to address stress ... The N.C. General Assembly created the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission in 2000 to lessen the ...

(Header image: Workers sort tobacco at a farm on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe, 2022. Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Photo via VCG) Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc.

THEY’RE IN OUR GAMES. BIG TOBACCO IS TO BLAME. TEENS WITH YOUTH QUEST MARCHED FROM THE SHERATON HOTEL TO THE WEST STEPS, CARRYING SIGNS AND CHANTING. THE YOUTH ADVOCATES FROM ACROSS THE STATE ...