2yr old smokes 40 cigs a day. (no joke)

[Redpb]

I have my faults as a parent but holy crap these folks have failed.

Taking a deep drag on his cigarette while resting on the steering wheel of his truck, he looks like a parody of a middle-aged lorry driver.

But the image covers up a much more disturbing truth: At just the tender age of two, Ardi Rizal's health has been so ruined by his 40-a-day habit that he now struggles to move by himself.

The four-stone Indonesia toddler is certainly far too unfit to run around with other children - and his condition is set to rapidly deteriorate.

But, despite local officials' offer to buy the Rizal family a new car if the boy quits, his parents feel unable to stop him because he throws massive tantrums if they don't indulge him.

His mother, Diana, 26, wept: '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.' [I]

Ardi will smoke only one brand and his habit costs his parents

[Jaxx]

wow. Sad.

[trackrunner]

there is a youtube video of him smoking too

[Deathcricket]

'If cigarette advertising is not banned, there will be more kids whose lives are threatened because of smoking,' he said.

:roflol::roflol::roflol:

The kids fat too. They should ban unhealthy foods from being advertised also. Couldn't be the parent's fault. They are just victims. The government needs to step in immediately!

Here is a video of him smoking. He's a pro with those smoke rings.


http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/e/16711680/wshh131mguWSMy2G44Mc

[Scott P]

'If cigarette advertising is not banned, there will be more kids whose lives are threatened because of smoking,' he said.
:roflol::roflol::roflol:


Unfortunately, in some 3rd world countries (haven't been to Indonesia yet, but will in December), it's advertised as healthy.

For example, in Uganda, we say a big billboard for Marboro's saying "Live the Healthy American Life". Much extra nicotine is put in cigarettes to make them more addicting. Advertisements all over the place claim they are healthy and sell them as such.

It seems really strange, but some people over there really don't know that they aren't healthy. Our porters on Mount Elgon would ask us for smokes, but when I would tell them that I didn't have any and that they aren't healthy. I don't think they understood or believed us.

IMHO, at least the advertisements claiming that they are healthy should be banned.

[Scott Card]

This kid has no chance. His parents have lost control of him at 2??? Yikes. Smoking is bad enough but if the kid rules the roost at the age of 2, those parents have already lost the battle most likely. And think of his little (OK maybe not that little) developing lungs.... this breaks my heart.