Sumatran 2-Year-Old Toddler Smokes 40 Cigarettes Per Day!
Ardi got his first taste for tobacco when his father Mohammed, a 30-year-old fishmonger, gave him a cigarette when he was a year and a half old - and now he throws tantrums if he can't doesn't get his 40 cigarettes a day.
Ardi, from Musi Banyuasin in Sumatra, Indonesia, will smoke only one brand and his habit costs his parents £3.78 a day - in a province where the minimum wage is around £69 a month.
The two-year-old now weighs 4 stone, and trundles round on a toy truck blowing smoke rings as he is too unfit to run with the other children.
His 26-year-old mother Diana, who has been trying to get him to quit but with little success, said: 'He's totally addicted. If he doesn't get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall. He tells me he feels dizzy and sick.'
Officials have offered to buy the family a car if he quits, but his father said: 'He looks pretty healthy to me. I don't see the problem.'
NOTE: Words cannot express my feeling on this one. I don't know what brand he smokes but that company should quickly attempt to get a handle on this...but, then again, it's Indonesia. This kid may very well be a marketer's wet dream over there...Lon
Video: Sumatran 2-Year-Old Toddler Smokes 40 Cigarettes Per Day!
posted by Lon Strickler at 8:05 PM
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I am not, i repete NOT pro child abuse. Even just a smack on the ass can usually be avoided. BUT this kid, banging his head on stuff if he doesnt get a smoke. I would smack him on the head and tell him to run laps around the hut until the nausciousness does away. And the parents. either steralize them or throw 'em in a river..
Hi Lon....You Tube took this video down, I just tried to view.
Peace.
Video is available here:
Two Year Old Smokes 40 Cigarettes A Day
YouTube keep taking it down from their site.
What the hell is going on here? What 2 year old can communicate that it "feels dizzy & sick", if he does not get his nicotine fix? The parents bear the criminality here and should have this child taken from their care immediately!
I don't think we (humans) will ever be able to acsend to any higher level of conciousness as long as there are people like this living amoung us!
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