Altria states that it monitors for child labor through assessments asking if a grower has hired any worker under 18, as well as a pilot project to include worker interviews involving questions regarding a workers age and whether the workers own children are employed on the farm.[124] British American Tobacco British American Tobacco is a leading global tobacco company with products sold in over 200 markets and has more than 200 tobacco product brands in its portfolio, including Pall Mall, the third largest cigarette brand in the world.[125] BAT owns a 42 percent stake in the US tobacco manufacturing company Reynolds American.[126] BATs child labor policy prohibits work by children under 15, except for light work by children ages 13 to 15 on their family farms, or in the case of training programs by a competent authority.[127] The company bans hazardous work for children under 18, and in an October 2015 letter for the first time detailed to Human Rights Watch which tasks constitute hazardous labor under BATs child labor policy, as noted above
Some researchers have warned that raising the legal purchasing age for tobacco products could result in more dangerous tobacco use by teens, as the ban could force them to buy products off a black market not previously in existence
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For one thing, it is easy for consumers to circumvent the tax via the internet, discount tobacco outlets, or the black market
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The tobacco industry cannot be allowed to further delay these necessary warnings that show and tell the truth about the deadly consequences of smoking
