Tobacco Flowers Against A Blue Sky. Stock Image

Family member cleaning tobacco leaf in manukgonj. Workers earning very little money and in hazardous conditions which can damage their health. Children who work at the fields and factories work from 9am to 8pm everyday and are only paid 50 Taka GBP 0.45. The global tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year, of which more than 600,000 are non-smokers dying from breathing second-hand smoke, according to the World Health Organization WHO. Unless any effective step is taken, the epidemic will kill more than 8 million people every year by 2030.