NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British American Tobacco (BAT), the world's second biggest cigarette company, vowed on Thursday to investigate some of its supply farms in Bangladesh after a Swedish campaign group uncovered the use of child workers to grow and process tobacco.
Swedwatch, which surveyed three tobacco farming districts in Bangladesh, said it found child labour was "widespread" in farms supplying BAT and its local subsidiary British American Tobacco Bangladesh, jeopardising their health and education.