2 year old 2 pack a day smoker Ardi Rizal
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2-year-old boy
smokes 40
cigarettes
a day
By Lin Li
____May 30th, 2010
CHINAVIEW
Taking a deep drag on his
cigarette while resting on the
steering wheel of his truck,
he looks like a parody of a
middle-aged lorry driver.
But the image covers up a
much more disturbing truth:
At just the tender age of two,
Ardi Rizal‘s health has been so
ruined by his 40-a-day habit
that he now struggles to
move by himself.
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The four-stone Indonesia toddler
is certainly far too unfit to run
around with other children –
and his condition is set
to rapidly deteriorate.
His mother,
Diana, 26, wept:
“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.”
But, despite local officials’ offer
to buy the Rizal family a new car
if the boy quits,
his parents feel unable to stop
him because he throws massive
tantrums if they don’t
indulge him.
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Ardi will smoke only one
brand and his habit costs
his parents 3.78 British pounds
(about 5.50 U.S. dollars)
a day in Musi Banyuasin,
in Indonesia’s South
Sumatra province.
But in spite of this,
his fishmonger father
Mohammed, 30, said:
“He looks pretty
healthy to me.
I don’t see the problem.”
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.
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Video link below
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_Dad Mohammed gave
_Ardi his first smoke
_at eighteen months.
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Kid Smoker Links
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