Lawmakers Seek Overseas Labor Data From Tobacco Company

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: New York Times

Leaders of a congressional investigation panel on Friday asked the global tobacco giant Philip Morris International to produce any information from the past three years regarding child labor, forced labor or unsafe working conditions in its overseas markets.

The request from the Committee on Energy and Commerce followed report in The Times on a human rights group’s finding that PMI, the makers of Marlboro products overseas, benefited from at least 72 instances of child labor in tobacco fields in Kazakhstan.

The committee asked for all documents since Jan. 1, 2007, “relating to any allegations of abusive labor practices in any of your company’s production markets, including child labor, forced labor, illegal withholding of passports, unsafe working conditions, and unsanitary living conditions, and the company’s efforts to prevent such practices.”

The letter on Friday was signed by the committee chairman, longtime tobacco fighter Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, and the chairman of the subcommittee on oversight and investigations, Bart Stupak of Michigan.

Read more: http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/lawmakers-seek-overseas-labor-data-from-tobacco-company/?src=twr

[fasttense]

1. Hell we don't even grow our own cancer causing addictive products

here in the US. How sad is that?

[waronbanks]

2. Tobacco kills 400,000 people a year in America.

More than any other single cause. Can someone explain to me why this corporation of murder is allowed to exist?