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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what can we expect from a third world country like indonesia where corruption is at its best? i think the best way to quit smoking is to ban the production and plantation of tobacco, treating it like a prohibited drug…..anyway nobody cares because if tobaco production is stopped business would drop, and people who worke on the production would starve. think its the balance of nature to lessen the population by dying younger….again i say who cares?
it is indeed a shame for the parents of the child but what can we do? saying anything about the video is useless not unless we stop the manufacturing of cigarettes or regulating the sale like a prescriptive medicine? it may sound crazy but what else can we suggest to avoid smoking other than stopping its production. that’s what i thought of….
The father of this poor child is the idiot to blame in all of this. he was the one that introduced smoking to his child in the first place. what a useless, irresponsible and STUPID father!
why he the parent leave the small boy smoke like that
parents should be put in to jail for being irresponsible…child should be rehabilitated and be adopted by a responsible social welfare…SHAME FOR THE IRRESPONSIBLE PARENTS!
i think the cheese burgers are gonaa kill that fatty before the cigarettes do.
Am really shocked at this discovery, because i never expeccted such a thing from an 11 year old; not to talk of a 2 year old. I wish there was something I could do to reduce,(if not stop) the level of smoking. This child’s health could be damaged terribly in the next few years if he doesn’t stop. I just hope it’s not too late for him. I’ve learnt from this little boy’s story. I just wish there was a way I could help…
BUY TOBACCO STOCK!!!!!
I believe they are Islamic. Isn’t that a WONDERFUL RELIGION?.
These people are insane.
OMG…
Love me!
Then the tax payers poor more money to developing countries to support more corupt gov. –go figure
SHOCKING
I fail to see why U.S. or U.K. people feel they have to nanny other countries.
The kid looks spoiled rotten. He’s fat, ill mannered and I don’t believe he’s only two years old. Those people are small in stature. I saw this video/article somewhere else depicting the country as India. Get your story right.
poor kid. he smokes too much, it will affect him when he gets older. the father is ridiculous, too, he taught his son too, how to smoke! i feel pity for the kid. how can his parents laugh while he smokes like that while damaging his and others lungs?!
poor kid. he smokes too much, it will affect him when he gets older. the father is ridiculous, too, he taught his son too, how to smoke! i feel pity for the kid.