Twelve-year-old tobacco farmers: the hidden battle against US child labor
Brazil and India have banned child labor in their tobacco fields, but the Human Rights Watch reports that children as young as 12 are doing dangerous work in American fields.
US child tobacco farms: 60hrs a week in heat, nicotine exposure

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This is not a problem that occurs only in "foreign places". It occurs everywhere. Even in my home state of Oregon as seen in this photo (read about Oregon Child Agricultural Labor) there are huge issues. And this is the point - child labor happens because their families are so impoverished and are unable to find a way to make a healthy living for themselves.