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Marlboro Boys: photo essay highlights Indonesia’s rampant underage smoking problem
IT’S NO secret smoking laws in Australia have become increasingly restricted.
By comparison, Indonesia has an extreme lack of law enforcement when it comes to smoking. This fact, paired with the availability of cheap cigarettes, has led to smokers picking up the habit at an age far younger than other parts of the world.
Canadian photographer Michelle Siu captured this series of images she titled ‘Marlboro Boys’ in an attempt to highlight the smoking culture of Indonesia to the rest of the world.
“The juxtaposition of young boys smoking like seasoned addicts is jarring, yet this project is intended to not only shock and inform viewers but to demonstrate the lack of enforcement of national health regulations and to question the country’s dated relationship with tobacco,” she said of the project.
“They inhale and exhale like old men that have been smoking for years — some of them have been smoking two packs a day since they were little kids,” she told TIME.
“Tobacco consumption in Indonesia is a complex issue as it is intertwined in the country culturally, politically and economically. You can’t take 10 steps before seeing a tobacco advertisement or someone smoking,” Siu said.
Here are some of the young people featured in her photo essay, ‘Marlboro Boys’:
Some more pics -
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...m/news-story/cbd9f0a09441399bea723bc59117fe33
IT’S NO secret smoking laws in Australia have become increasingly restricted.
By comparison, Indonesia has an extreme lack of law enforcement when it comes to smoking. This fact, paired with the availability of cheap cigarettes, has led to smokers picking up the habit at an age far younger than other parts of the world.
Canadian photographer Michelle Siu captured this series of images she titled ‘Marlboro Boys’ in an attempt to highlight the smoking culture of Indonesia to the rest of the world.
“The juxtaposition of young boys smoking like seasoned addicts is jarring, yet this project is intended to not only shock and inform viewers but to demonstrate the lack of enforcement of national health regulations and to question the country’s dated relationship with tobacco,” she said of the project.
“They inhale and exhale like old men that have been smoking for years — some of them have been smoking two packs a day since they were little kids,” she told TIME.
“Tobacco consumption in Indonesia is a complex issue as it is intertwined in the country culturally, politically and economically. You can’t take 10 steps before seeing a tobacco advertisement or someone smoking,” Siu said.
Here are some of the young people featured in her photo essay, ‘Marlboro Boys’:
Some more pics -
NSFW:
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...m/news-story/cbd9f0a09441399bea723bc59117fe33
