12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes – but they can work in tobacco fields
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#218-year olds can't buy alcohol, but they can die fighting for oil companies.
Re: 12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes – but they can work in tobacco fields
#318-year olds can't buy alcohol, but they can die fighting for oil companies.
So you're arguing 12 olds should be able to buy cigarettes?
Edit: Op has no context or clear point, so its a legitimate question. Why are we comparing children and adults? Is the point that 18s should be able to buy alcohol? Or that they should be 21 to go to war?
Re: 12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes – but they can work in tobacco fields
#4children under 18 can’t vote for better labor laws either, they should be able to vote
Re: 12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes – but they can work in tobacco fields
#518-year olds can't buy alcohol, but they can die fighting for oil companies.
So you're arguing 12 olds should be able to buy cigarettes? Edit: Op has no context or clear point, so its a legitimate question. Why are we comparing children and adults? Is the point that 18s should be able to buy alcohol? Or that they should be 21 to go to war?
Err, I think they’re arguing that they shouldn’t be working in the fields picking tobacco…. Or, you forgot your “/s”.
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#6There’s a big stupid online/news debate the past few months about teen employment, and I mean it’s long on noise and short on facts about what laws have been changing (mostly very procedural paperwork changes), what laws there are, where teens are actually working, and what the impact of jobs are on teens.
And we’ve studied things like this, and it’s a travesty that the studies don’t come up more.
Re: 12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes – but they can work in tobacco fields
#718-year olds can't buy alcohol, but they can die fighting for oil companies.
So you're arguing 12 olds should be able to buy cigarettes? Edit: Op has no context or clear point, so its a legitimate question. Why are we comparing children and adults? Is the point that 18s should be able to buy alcohol? Or that they should be 21 to go to war?
If there is an argument contained in that wry comment, it's probably that going to war to protect overseas economic interests is even less defensible than children working in tobacco fields.
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#8> Ten-hour days, five or six days a week, in North Carolina's summer heat.
This is the problem, not the age of the child or the crop.
Spending an occasional weekend working a few hours in a field sounds perfectly fine and character-building for a 12-year-old. More 12 year olds should be getting outside and tasting manual labor!
The issue is when this starts being less of a learning experience and more of an actual full time job. Sending 12 year olds out to earn a living clearly isn’t right.
Re: 12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes – but they can work in tobacco fields
#9children under 18 can’t vote for better labor laws either, they should be able to vote
Do you think they would vote against be allowed to work? I always wanted jobs as a teen so I could do stuff- I wanted to be independent as do most teens I'd imagine.
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#10imo 12 year old working a field is ok