Those who travel along the highways in the south-central region of Paraná State, between the months of December and February, a time when the tobacco harvest is in full swing, have no difficulty finding workers spraying crops, but unprotected against the action of pesticides. Definitely, the summer is not very healthy for the 186 thousand families in the southern region of Brazil who grow on small properties about 830 thousand tons per year - a number that makes Brazil the second largest producer and the main world exporter of the raw material of the cigarette.
