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Smoking Toddler Puffs Two Packs a Day
Mark Moloney | May 27, 2010

Ardi Rizal, a two year old from Sumatra puffs his way through two pack of cigarettes per day. (Photo courtesy SCTV) Ardi Rizal, a two year old from Sumatra puffs his way through two pack of cigarettes per day. (Photo courtesy SCTV)
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Beaux
9:47am May 28, 2010

I'm 63 years of age I started fooling around with cigarettes when I was

about 7 years old,the two things I remember getting in trouble over was skipping class in the first grade and having my dad catch me and my best friend out behind the school smoking. Back then there was no

warning label on the pack about dangers to your health,tobacco salesmen,handed out trial packs containing 5 ,cigarettes or 2 cigars to

us kids and said here kid take this home to your folks,(sure,you bet'cha) we went straight behind the store and lit-up,(Oh! my best friend through 12 years of school,that was with me when I got caught

smoking in the 1st Grade,His dad owned the store and his older teenage brother ran the store, we always had smokes) . I wish I had

never started, knowing allowing a two year old child to smoke is a

Mortal Sin,shame, shame, shame on you parents,may you burn in Hadies or what ever you call Hell.


Nor1-ch4n
7:54am May 28, 2010

I agree with kales. A lot of Indonesians are uneducated and think also behave as "if everyone is doing it, then it's right and alright to do it as well." They don't see the future impacts. Unfortunately, the government and a lot of well are selfish and greedy and think for their own benefits only and disregard the communities around them. I hope there'd for a better future in Indonesia where people cares for others more and being compassionate.

Nor1-ch4n
7:53am May 28, 2010

I agree with kales. A lot of Indonesians are uneducated and think also behave as "if everyone is doing it, then it's right and alright to do it as well." They don't see the future impacts. Unfortunately, the government and a lot of well are selfish and greedy and think for their own benefits only and disregard the communities around them. I hope there'd for a better future in Indonesia where people cares for others more and being compassionate.

LMO
3:02am May 28, 2010

So an 18 months old can smoke and no one seems to mind, but Im a sinner for having a beer after work?

kales
4:25pm May 27, 2010

This is an example of why education is so important to the future of Indonesia. Ardi is the future and his father doesn't know any better.

Ardi Rizal is a two year-old from Musi Banyuasin in Sumatra with a difference - he is addicted to cigarettes and smokes two packs a day. 

According to his mother Diana, "he's totally addicted.  If he doesn't gets cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall.'

She said that he suffered withdrawal symptoms when he was denied cigarettes. "He complains that he feels dizzy and sick if he doesn't get a cigarette," she said.

His father, Mohammed, first introduced Ardi to smoking at the age of eighteen months.

Ardi, who weighs about 25 kilos, is also too unfit to play with other children and instead gets around on a toy truck.
Ardi refuses to smoke anything other than his favourite brand. 

When his father was asked if he thought smoking would harm Ardi, he said "Ardi looks pretty healthy to me. I don't see the problem."