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| 2 Year Old Smoking Cigarettes |
| 2010-05-27 |
| At just 18-months-old, Ardi Riza's father gave him his first cigarette. Now two-year-old from Sumatra, Indonesia is smoking 40 cigarettes a day! Despite bribes from officials to give the family of the child a new car if he quits, it won't be happening anytime soon. His mother says, “He's totally addicted. If he doesn't get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall. He tells me he feels dizzy and sick.' Unfortunately his dad doesn't see it as a problem. “He looks pretty healthy to me. I don't see the problem,' he said. Either someone is just unaware or is in serious denial! When I first saw the video of the two-year-old smoking cigarettes I thought it was amusing. Seeing the baby smoke like a pro was like watching a cartoon! Then I realized that if this story happened in the United States, I'd be absolutely appalled. Why should my feelings for a child in a third world country be any different? In fact, this is even more depressing because it makes you so aware of how uneducated Ardi's father and other residents of Sumatra must be about their children's health. Watch the video of the two year old smoking cigarettes here |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #2 Leftover joke from the days of prairie medicine was, "one for the baby, and one for dad" but the idea was to just dip the finger into the whiskey and swipe the gums (while dad took the shot; late night teething stuff). I was in Paris a while back and tried not to stare when papa and baby bellied up to the bar and l'enfant had, what would be a choker scaled up to a grownup, an assisted sip of vodka. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-05-27 14:46 |
| #1 I once bummed a menthol off a 10-year-old street kid in China. It still ranks as one of the must screwed-up things I ever did. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-05-27 14:07 |