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(Video) WTF: 2 -Year Old In Indonesia Smokes 40 Cigarettes A Day

We thought we had heard AND seen it all… A journalist in Indonesia encountered a two year old who smokes 40 cigarettes a day. The kid apparently throws a tantrum (withdrawal?) when his parents don’t give him his daily dose. SMH.

Check out the article and video below of the kid smoking.

According to the Daily Mail:

This is the two-year-old Indonesian boy who throws a tantrum when his parents refuse him a cigarette.

Ardi Rizal was given his first cigarette by his father when he was just 18-months-old.

The smoking toddler was witnessed by a reporter who recently visited his home in the fishing village of Musi Banyuasin, in Indonesia’s South Sumatra province.

‘m not worried about his health, he looks healthy,’ shrugged the boy’s father Mohammad Rizal.

‘He cries and throws tantrums when we don’t let him smoke. He’s addicted.’

Ardi’s youth is the extreme of a disturbing trend. Data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25 per cent of Indonesian children aged three to 15 have tried cigarettes, with 3.2 per cent of those active smokers.

The percentage of five to nine year olds lighting up increased from 0.4 per cent in 2001 to 2.8 per cent in 2004, the agency reported.

A video of a four-year-old Indonesian boy blowing smoke rings appeared briefly on YouTube in March, prompting outrage before it was removed from the site.

Child advocates are speaking out about the health damage to children from second-hand smoke, and the growing pressure on them to smoke in a country where one-third of the population uses tobacco and single cigarettes can be bought for a few cents.

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