"Gouin was a housewife and the mother of two daughters, the youngest of whom had an allergy to smoke," University of Virginia historian Sarah Milov writes in The Cigarette: A Political History
In the region, 11% of young people use tobacco
are among the largest tobacco producers worldwide
JTs businesses include a Japanese domestic tobacco business and Japan Tobacco International (JTI), headquartered in Geneva.[408] JTIs Agricultural Labor Policy (ALP), which applies to all of its direct-contracted growers, includes child labor elimination, and states that children shall not carry out activities such as crop harvesting or other activities related to physically handling green leaf tobacco, carrying heavy loads, or those involving handling or application of crop protection agents.[409] The policy allows children ages 16 and above to carry out such tasks, where national law permits it, but requires the health, safety, and moral of the children to be fully protected, including [by] comprehensive specific training.[410] Concerning nicotine poisoning, JTI requires growers to make workers aware of the risks of GTS and apply reasonable measures to limit its risk, in line with JTI guidance supplied to growers