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Inside a Brooklyn Sweatshop That Processes Tobacco for Bodegas

Workers producing HotHead Grabba say they labor in sweatshop-like conditions.

Virginia recalled being several hours into her shift at a clandestine tobacco factory in northeast Brooklyn in early February when she abruptly abandoned her shift, overcome by dizziness and a pulsing headache that she said made her feel like she was drunk.  She was stripping, by hand, Fronto tobacco leaves that are illicitly sold crushed […]

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