The video of a 2-year-old Indonesian toddler smoking has outraged the public and Child Welfare groups all over the world.
Video of 2 year old Indonesian child smoking
NationalTurk advices that the video bellow is not suitable for people under the age of 18
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The video was taken by a reporter who visited the fishing village in Musi Banyuasin, in the South Sumatra province where the family live, after hearing of the child smoking.
Ardi Rizal , the 2-year-old boy who is from Sumatra, Western Indonesia, is reported to smoke up to 40 cigarettes a day.
[adrotate banner=”56″]His parents who has received plenty of stick for the shocking addiction of their son say that every time they refuse little Rizal a cigarette “he throw a tantrum and starts to scream.”
The toddler started smoking when he was only 18-month-old after his father gave him a cigarette. (Some children are given cigarettes by their parents in the Asian country as the reaction of the child is found amusing by their parents and elders.)
The most shocking thing about the video is that the child’s family members are giggling and laughing while the child puffs away a cigarette which is easily twice the size of his fingers.
The father of the boy said that he was “not worried of the child’s health” as he looks fine. His father and mother have said that their two-year-old son is addicted to cigarettes.
It is not known if the Indonesian authorities will take any legal action on the family of the child.
Indonesia is one of the leading countries in the world in both manufacturing and smoking cigarettes. The recent video of 2-year-old Rizal is not the first as just in March another Indonesian boy, aged just 4 was filmed on camera smoking, and had gone viral after being uploaded on YouTube. The video has since been removed.
Indonesia has one of the worst smoking records in the world, with a population of 250 million people; they are listed as the third most smoking country behind China (1.3 Billion population) and India (1.1 billion population).
It is reported that over a third of the country smokes, and 90% of the country’s smokers smoke a native cigarette which has twice the levels of tar and nicotine in an average cigarette around the world.
Government figures show that 25 % of Indonesia’s children aged 3-15 have tried cigarettes at some point and 3.2 % of those children are active smokers.
According to the South-East Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), over 90% of Indonesian children have watched advertisement of cigarettes.
Some schools and even sports teams are sponsored by tobacco companies in the country.
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mr leo and others this is really bad but it is not an opportunity to insult other societies because your “clean” and “educated” world is full of things that nobody could imagine. after all cigrattes are your invention(output of your civilization).
it’s all the dad’s fault, he gave the boy his first cigarette. and i cannot believe they are laughing while he’s smoking and saying he’s in perfect health!?!?
Here’s to see what a lack of education causes to simple people. It’s unbearable that Asian governments do so little about proper education. The only thing counts is: Can I score on this project?
wow
its not all in asean country, in Malaysia, chils that is 6 years old also cannot even try 1 cigarettes, their parents will extremely angry and punish their son if they tried to smoke, in Malaysia, 50% smokers are from Indonesia, Philipines and other country, not all people in Malaysia like to smoke, they hate it and knows the risk..
LOL,this is very interesting.They should just put his parents down and the child aswell if can’t stop smoking.
God must be angry towards this family.i think this is just a curse.but i believe it can be fixed.let them kneel down and pray
This is the reason tsunami strikes Indonesia.
tony – Not sure but i think this could be a fake video, ’cause i can’t think of anyone doing that to their own son.
tony, i’m pretty sure this is real, because i’ve seen this on the news on television. i don’t think they’d air something that is fake.
but yes, this is completely wrong for a child of this age to be addicted to smoking and even ALLOWED to smoke by the parents. everybody keeps mentioning things about how the parents are stupid people. maybe they are, but keep in mind that THEY DO NOT LIVE IN AMERICA. the parents are obvious not well educated, and saying that they should have “charges filed against them” wouldn’t be very effective because they live in indonesia. i’m sure things are MUCH DIFFERENT there. i am not saying that i support children smoking, in fact i find it disgusting and wrong, but many of the comments are just ridiculous.
have watched the video and i see alot of editing going on. i don’t speak the language so i cant comment on that…… if you “really” watch is he inhaling? still not a good thing. but hey here in the states someone is made “big” by being in self promoted affairs! is this the case…. probably not!
very bad
I have kids myself.And I wish I would catch one of them with a cigarette or a rolled up peice of paper acting like they about to smoke!!
This boy is seriously over weight and he smokes thats crazy. What is wrong with these parents, they should have charges filed against them. So what if the child thows tantrums, all kids do, so you let them cry, they can;t always have their way. Thats part of growing up and if you can’t handle that then don’t have kids. People like that don’t deserve to have kids and why isn’t someone stepping in? There is nothing funny about this and they are killing that kid, and that’s abuse
Really….look and the cig is fake…doesn’t burn down.
FAKE