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
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The video which has gone viral in popular video sharing websites shows the 2-year-old child smoking in front of his parents while they giggle on.
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.
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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Brilliant technique, that has to be jis after sex cigarette!
something is mentally wrong with india people if they was to come out here and do that to they kids they would be in jail but the reason y they stay out there is because they can get away with it and i think the dad sounds really dumb cuz all he”s doing is killing his child at 2yrs old
Not sure but i think this could be a fake video, ’cause i can’t think of anyone doing that to their own son.
Interesting, we all look at the family, and not a word about the educated, well researched, money earning industry that continues to produce these products that kill us, instead we too blame and punish the family.
this is very sad when you see a 2 year old smoking and the parents sitting there and enjoying it as if were perfectly fine. perhaps someone should educate those people as to the long term efeects…
Idiots!
Ardi Rizal , the 2-year-old boy who is from Sumatra, Western Indonesia, is reported to smoke up to 40 cigarettes a day is going to die at the age of fifteen because of lung and throat cancer.
crazy
It is more than ridiculous for me to see a smoking baby especially a 2 year old baby.May God help us in this our generation.
YAY for smoking!
This is disgusting. How can a parent laugh when they are hurting a child or anyone else for that matter.
This is not uncommon in third world countries. Can’t expect much more from dirt poor, uneducated people.
That’s Hilarious!
This is wrong a child that is two years old has no business smoking…he can die…and another thing his parents think it is funny and when the child lungs are damaged with lung cancer they will reget the fact that they let their son smoke….i dont think its the childs fault, because he is only 2…but the more you give your child the cigarettes the more he will want…and of course he is gonna get mad he doesnt know any better…somebody needs to step up!
thats rediculouss