Two-year-old smokes 40 cigarettes a day

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http://www.sevensidedcube.net/health/2010/two-year-old-smokes-40-cigarettes-a-day/

I do not know if you remember Liangliang Tong, a two-year-old who smoked like a 40-years-old. However, Tong was an apprentice compared to the giant Ardi Rizal, unfortunately.

Ardi lives in Sumatra (Indonesia), has two years and smokes forty cigarettes a day. Sumatra is a small fishing village of Musi Banyuasin where 25% of children already tried smoking and 3.2% are active smokers. No doubt their parents know how to care of their son, Mohamed (30 years), the father of the child, gave him his first cigarette when Ardi was 18-months-old and is not at all worried about the health of small boy … He says he looks healthy!

The two-year-old who weighs 25 kilos, has trouble walking and if he doesn’t get cigarettes he gets angry, screams and bangs his head against the wall “, as confirmed by Diana (26 years), mother the baby.


Diana insists that he is “an addict”, and when Ardi doesn’t smoke, “says he feels dizzy and sick.”

Organizations defending the rights of children in Indonesia begun to discuss openly about the health damage caused by the smoke, in a country where one third of the population is addicted to smoking and cigarettes can be bought for about a few cents.

The health minister acknowledged that Endang Sedyaningsih convince young people that smoking is harmful is difficult, because Indonesia is perceived as something positive and cigarette companies are big sponsors of scholarships, sporting events and campaigns of all kinds.
 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37358195/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/

Dad says smoking toddler is ‘addicted’
2-year-old throws tantrums when he can't light up

msnbc.com news services
updated 4:51 p.m. ET May 26, 2010

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A video of smoking toddler is sparking outrage on the web. When the clip of 2-year-old Sumatran Ardi Rizal puffing away surfaced on YouTube Wednesday, it spread to online social media like, well, fire. Popular blog Gawker linked to the smoking baby video, calling him "totally cooler than you." But user Faldo777's response was the more typical response: "His parents should be jailed ..."

In fact, his parents say Rizal throws a tantrum when they refuse to give him a cigarette. His father gave him his first smoke 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.

"I'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."

Rizal isn't the first smoking youngster caught on tape. In March, a video of a 4-year-old Indonesian boy blowing smoke rings appeared briefly on YouTube, prompting outcries before it was removed from the site.

Disturbing trend
Ardi's youth is the extreme of a disturbing trend in Indonesia. Data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25 percent of Indonesian children ages 3-to-15 have tried cigarettes, with 3.2 percent of those active smokers.

The percentage of 5- to 9-year-olds lighting up increased from 0.4 percent in 2001 to 2.8 percent in 2004, the agency reported.

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

Seto Mulyadi, chairman of Indonesia's child protection commission, blames the increase on aggressive advertising and parents who are smokers.

"A law to protect children and passive smokers should be introduced immediately in this country," he said.

A health law passed in 2009 formally recognizes that smoking is addictive, and an anti-smoking coalition is pushing for tighter restrictions on smoking in public places, advertising bans and bigger health warnings on cigarette packages.

But a bill on tobacco control has been stalled because of opposition from the tobacco industry. The bill would ban cigarette advertising and sponsorship, prohibit smoking in public, and add graphic images to packaging.

Benny Wahyudi, a senior official at the Industry Ministry, said the government had initiated a plan to try to limit the number of smokers, including dropping production to 240 billion cigarettes this year, from 245 billion in 2009.

"The government is aware of the impact of smoking on health and has taken efforts, including lowering cigarette production, increasing its tax and limiting smoking areas," he said.

Mulyadi said a ban on advertising is key to putting the brakes on child and teen smoking. "If cigarette advertising is not banned, there will be more kids whose lives are threatened because of smoking," he said.

Ubiquitous advertising hit a bump last month when a cigarette company was forced to withdraw its sponsorship of pop star Kelly Clarkson's concert following protests from fans and anti-tobacco groups.

However, imposing a nonsmoking message will be difficult in Indonesia, the world's third-largest tobacco consumer.

Tubagus Haryo Karbyanto, a member of the National Commission of Tobacco Control, said Indonesia must also address the social conditions that lead to smoking, such as family influence and peer pressure.

"The promotion of health has to be integrated down to the smallest units in our society, from public health centers and local health care centers to the family," he was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe on Friday.

Health Minister Endang Sedyaningsih conceded turning young people off smoking will be difficult in a country where it is perceived as positive because cigarette companies sponsor everything from scholarships to sporting events.

"This is the challenge we face in protecting youth from the dangers of smoking," she said in a statement on the ministry's website.
 
Addictions are hard enough as is. Can't imagine what it would be like to have your parents get you addicted and keep you addicted as a child. You'd never know any other way of living.

I can't imagine the damage that it would be doing to the kids lungs. I'm surprised he's not sick often.
 
This is f u c k e d -- u p ! ! ! 8o
What a poowr kid :( I can't believe his "father" would be so uncaring and idiotic to give his kid a cig at the age of 18 months (was it?)....
Evil shit :X:!:p:|
 
This is just fucking wrong in so many ways. These parents should have their kid taken away from them cause obviously they are fucking idiots. If they gave their kid crack or even weed in that country they would probably get life in prison so why not atleast take their kid away from these twats.
 
OMG I had to read that news story twice just to make sure I was comprehending what the hell I just seen and then the freakin video really sent me trippin..the shit that is happening in the world is insanity at it's finest. The world has been twisted forever. It is the communication system that is making it show up....the internet takes me round the world and I don't even have to leave my home...wow I have not seen anything yet...
 
Yeah...

But....

Look how cool he looks... that kid is getting laid by the age of 5!!

Heart disease by 7.
 
Some cultures do female genital mutilation.
Some cultures send men to the moon.
Other cultures allow children to smoke.
No culture is better than another. We can not judge!
 
noserious1 said:
Some cultures do female genital mutilation.
Some cultures send men to the moon.
Other cultures allow children to smoke.
No culture is better than another. We can not judge!
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No one said any culture is better than another. Two of those things you describe are flagrant human rights violations and should be examined. Just because something falls under the banner of "culture" doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to it.
 
Nobody asked if it was a fake? The cigarette stays the same and doesn't decrease...
 
There is no denying the boy inhaled he has bigger balls then Clinton....lol.. no man that shit is real I am sure their are many more where that came from it is whole big wide world with all sorts of genetic make ups look at all the different posters we have right here everyone thinks different everyone lives different ..but ya just don't look at it that way it makes all kinds to spin this earth and that happens to be one of them... a fuckin smokin baby!!!!!8o lord have mercy..:|
loulou reed said:
Nobody asked if it was a fake? The cigarette stays the same and doesn't decrease...
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The child isn't even old enough to make an informed decision.

Some people make a fit about parents getting their babies ears pierced... And some impose smoking tobacco on two year olds.

This is sad.
 
noserious1 said:
Some cultures do female genital mutilation.
Some cultures send men to the moon.
Other cultures allow children to smoke.
No culture is better than another. We can not judge!
Click to expand...

OH PLEASE...

Before you all complain about the parents, remember that these are relatively impoverished people in Indonesia, where - as the article mentions - cigarette companies are often cast in a positive light, smoking is widely accepted, cigarettes and bidis are dirt cheap, etc. They are just as "stupid" as many of your parents, grandparents, and extended family members who smoked until the gub'mint told them it was "bad" / they were exposed to alternative viewpoints.

The answer is education, not criticism...
 
I would rather see the little dude puff some tobacco then see him with a broken arm and a couple of cartoon knots on his head from his whacked out mom or dad... I mean I am not saying this is cool. But seriously, the world is a big place, and with all the technology we have in place you can bet their is much more to see if ya stick around. Not to mention the fact that this type of thing has been happening forever ,we just didn't see it like we do now..
 
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