tobacco increase New Report: States Should Increase… Chart: Most Americans Want Minimum

In 2010, Human Rights Watch documented poor enforcement of child labor laws in agriculture by the Wage and Hour Division.[361] Since 2010, the division has hired additional investigators and added multilingual investigators and at the end of 2013, had 1,040 investigators (compared to 894 in April 2010).[362] In 2013, DOL conducted 201 investigations of agricultural employers under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and 1,227 cases under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, spending a total of 94,059 hours on agricultural investigations

JTIs policy states, Children from the age of 13 can do light work in accordance with local legislation, provided that it does not involve tobacco growing.[121] Altria Group In December 2014, Altria Groupparent to three US tobacco companies, including Philip Morris USA, the largest cigarette company in the US, and the manufacturer of brands such as Marlboro, Basic, L&M, Parliament, and Virginia Slimsannounced that it would establish a minimum age for employment at 16 years of age, for all of its contracted growers in the US

The new federal minimum age to purchase tobacco products also affects e-cigarettes and vaping cartridges

The tobacco industry began marketing cigarettes to women in the 1920s, according to a Surgeon General report on women and smoking