NationalTurk advices that the video bellow is not suitable for people under the age of \u00a018 <\/strong><\/p>\n [media id=272 width=610 height=340]<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Ardi Rizal , the 2-year-old boy who is from Sumatra, Western Indonesia, is reported to smoke up to 40 cigarettes a day.<\/p>\n\n 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 \u201che throw a tantrum and starts to scream.\u201d<\/p>\n 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.)<\/p>\n The most shocking thing about the video is that the child\u2019s family members are giggling and laughing while the child puffs away a cigarette which is easily twice the size of his fingers.<\/p>\n The father of the boy said that he was \u201cnot worried of the child\u2019s health\u201d as he looks fine. His father and mother have said that their two-year-old son is addicted to cigarettes.<\/p>\n It is not known if the Indonesian authorities will take any legal action on the family of the child.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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).<\/p>\n It is reported that over a third of the country smokes, and 90% of the country\u2019s smokers smoke a native cigarette which has twice the levels of tar and nicotine in an average cigarette around the world.<\/p>\n Government figures show that 25 % of Indonesia\u2019s children aged 3-15 have tried cigarettes at some point and 3.2 % of those children are active smokers.<\/p>\n According to the South-East Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), over 90% of Indonesian children have watched advertisement of cigarettes.<\/p>\n Some schools and even sports teams are sponsored by tobacco companies in the country.<\/p>\n Write your thoughts and comments bellow<\/strong><\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 19)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Indonesian child tapped smoking : The video of a 2-year-old Indonesian toddler smoking has outraged the public and Child Welfare groups all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,118],"tags":[8785,8786,8791,2381,8790,2546,808,8792,8787,8796,8788,8789,1823,1068,8793,8794,8795],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","tag-2-year-old-smoking","tag-child-smoking","tag-child-smoking-indonesia","tag-china","tag-film","tag-india","tag-indonesia","tag-indonesia-boy-smoking-video","tag-indonesia-child-smoking","tag-smoking-child-parents","tag-smoking-indonesia","tag-statistics-indonesia-smoking","tag-sumatra","tag-video","tag-video-2-year-old-smoking","tag-video-indonesian-smoking","tag-west-indonesia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}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.<\/h2>\n
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