Ardi Rizal is aged just two - but the toddler has already developed a 40-cigarettes-a-day smoking habit after his father let him smoke when he was just 18 months.Ardi got his first taste for tobacco when his father Mohammed, a 30-year-old fishmonger, gave him a cigarette when he was a year and a half old - and now he throws tantrums if he can't doesn't get his 40 cigarettes a day.
Ardi, from Musi Banyuasin in Sumatra, Indonesia, will smoke only one brand and his habit costs his parents £3.78 a day - in a province where the minimum wage is around £69 a month.
The two-year-old now weighs 4 stone, and trundles round on a toy truck blowing smoke rings as he is too unfit to run with the other children.
His 26-year-old mother Diana, who has been trying to get him to quit but with little success, said: '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.'
Officials have offered to buy the family a car if he quits, but his father said: 'He looks pretty healthy to me. I don't see the problem.'
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In some cultures this would be classed as child abuse!
i see no problem with this at all my kid who is same age smokes cannabis its good for the kid to socialise
this is a nuthing my child smokes ectasy itz more bettter for later life
His father is an idiot, who thinks it is nothing wrong with him now,...what about in the future??? His growth is going to be affected, and he can develop serious respiratory problems latter on, heart disease and cancer!! The child can not think for himself, so the parents are responsible, well in this case irresponsible. The child should be taken away from them, and they should be charged with neglect. They do not deserve to have a child.