A Two Year Old Smoking. Cigarettes. WTF.

Meet Ardi Rizal, a two-year-old Sumatran baby who smokes some forty cigarettes a day. The government has offered to buy his parents a car if he stops, but they claim he gets too angry without smokes. Plus, he looks fine!

"He looks pretty healthy to me. I don't see the problem," says his dad. Well except that he's a tad overweight and so unfit from the flab and the smoking — which he's been doing since his 30-year-old father gave him a cigarette at 18 months old — that he can't play with the other kids. But whatever. He's a baby, smoking! He'll be too famous for exercise. Here's the astonishingly appalling video.

From Gawker
BoneyDsays...

Cigarette companies have immense commercial power in Indonesia, their advertising is largely unregulated and targets young audiences vigorously. I've heard one statistic that 25% of children aged 3-15 have tried smoking (I can't yet verify the source on this, however).

See an excellent report by Foreign Correspondent on this:
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2009/s2673564.htm
(Video streams on the top right of the page)

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