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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This video made me sick to my stomach when I saw it. This child needs to be removed from it’s home and cared for correctly. It’s ‘fits’ are no doubt due to nicotine addiction. I hope something is done about this. This child’s parents have no right having children. You wouldn’t let your pet dog as a puppy eat something that was harmful to it’s health much less a child.
what a chubby disgrace
dats pathetic parents arent even doing anythin, watch when thier child dies den dats wen dey will regret lettin thier child smoke an the parents arent very responsible.
makes my skin crawl that is sick !
um heyy its keri agen i was meant to write ‘his parents should get aressted in stead of ‘his parents should … blah blah blah
Wth ?Apparently he was given his first ciggarete wen he was 18 months old! .. There parents should but obviusly they wont do it in a poor country .. WATCH – If he carrys on smokin he WILL die in a year ..
this frame is very sympethetic for govt. of indonesia.what the effect in persons for further future .thats should be paused immedietly
smoking at he age of 2 drugs at the age of 3
nah man dis is so fake he is like 4 yrs and he is not smoking fags stupid who evem learned him to take it in
i want eo see this article again &again.It unbelievable.There can not be better antismoking slogan,it will scare the adults smoking,It is ultimate in history of humanity.Children have to be groomed and nutured,loved,so that they grow to healthy happy child.
this kid does not really know how to smoke and know nothing about smoking, parents should be sent to jail.
@Jennna You’re a dumb ass.
I think its awesome…I mean, its not my kid, but I def think he should be in the genus book of world records for that…At LEAST lol
I feel it should be against the law to give life to a child and then they feel they have a right to kill them. Parents who are ignorant about life itself is not the fault of a child.This short video scared me for the 2yr old baby. The parents should pay the consequences for slowly committing murder. The law should be protecting these children not become part of what the parents are doing. If the law is aware and does nothing they also should hang.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:19-20 says ( Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves but to God; He bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God’s glory.)Save the children.
notice the cigerette doesnt burn down..? doesnt ash or anything, ehh fake!