Chainsmoker 2 Year Old Baby Smokes 40 Cigarettes A Day

Chainsmoker 2 Year Old Baby Smokes 40 Cigarettes A Day

The shocking incident gained it's prominence in front of the Indonesian government on Thursday while top anti-smoking association intended to give the parents of a chainsmoking 2-year-old baby a hard puff in the grey ash.

Further reaction to it, Matthew Myers of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids in Washington, D.C. expressed that it's clear the parents of this baby don't understand the risk smoking poses to their child. Myers added that shocking photos of baby Ardi Rizal puffing away on up to 40 cigarettes a day had much of the world agitation.

This reflects a pervading problem in many low-income countries where tobacco companies market their products to an uneducated public. He emphasized that anybody, at any age, can buy cigarettes in Indonesia, which is the only country in Southeast Asia that has not validate the World Health Organization's international agreement on tobacco. In Indonesia, the head of the country's child protection commission blamed Ardi's two-pack-a-day habit on advertising and ignorant parents.

Furthermore, Seto Mulyadi, who mentioned in support this bewilderment statistic - 25% of Indonesia's kids ages 3 to 15 have tried smoking said that a law to protect children and passive smokers should be introduced immediately in this country. Ardi, who lives in the province of Sumatra, has another problem - he weighs 56 pounds making him too fat to walk far so he gets around on a plastic toy truck. His weeping mom,Diana, told reporters, that she understands her son has a problem as he's totally addicted. Shockingly, if he doesn't get cigarettes, he gets furious as well as screams and pound repeatedly his head against the wall and also tells her he feels dizzy and sick. To all appearances which doesn't bother his father, Mohammed for whom he looks pretty healthy. It seems he don't see the problem.

Now, coming to the actuality, on the Daily News' Web site, readers gave their reaction to that attitude with utter disheartenment. GangsR4Dummies expressed that his father is an idiot. He It would strike with intense surprise if he lived past 5.

That's, in one word disgusting!

(AW:Samrat Biswas)