Chapter 4 - Factors That Influence Tobacco Use

ing the early 1900s, the dirtiest, unhealthiest, and low­ est paying jobs in tobacco factories were carried out by African American women (Jones 1984). Because the jobs held by African Americans in stemming and processing the tobacco leaf were low paying, the to­ bacco industry made little effort to mechanize such jobs before the early 1930s. ................
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