Regardless of how nicotine is absorbed, once this chemical enters the bloodstream, it circulates throughout the body and travels to the brain, where it crosses the blood-brain barrier
2017 doi: 10.1080/00952990.2016.1189927
The 2001 amendment to the Childrens Act prohibits children under 18 from performing any work, involving contact with any hazardous substance, article or process,[57] and the Environmental Management Act of 2002 defines a hazardous substance as any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, or any organism which is injurious to human health or the environment.[58] Statutory Instrument 12 of 2007 outlines the Environmental Management Acts regulations and specifically includes pesticides among the substances considered hazardous.[59] In its response to Human Rights Watch, the government confirmed that the use of chemicals would be considered hazardous work for children.[60] Mercy, a 12-year-old child tobacco worker in Mashonaland Central, described how she applied pesticides to the small-scale farms where she worked: We take the chemical and put it in the water
if the company uses youth-oriented marketing tactics, including on social media, as it has in other countries.
