A two-year old Indonesian toddler is addicted to smoking cigarettes, after taking up the habit when he was 18 months old.
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Shocking photos of baby Ardi Rizal puffing away on up to 40 cigarettes a day had much of the world fuming recently.
The child loves to smoke Marlboro and his father spends almost 5$ a day on his cigarette packets.
Anybody of any age can buy cigarettes in Indonesia, which is the only country in Southeast Asia that has not ratified the World Health Organization's treaty on tobacco.
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In Indonesia, the head of the country's child protection commission blamed Ardi's two-pack-a-day habit on advertising and clueless parents.
According to a survey, 25% of Indonesia's kids ages 3 to 15 have tried smoking.
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Source:
Reuters