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Why Is This 2-Year-Old Boy Smoking?

By Dan Fletcher | May 27, 2010 | +
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Ardi Rizal, you have a problem. Well, really, your parents do.

The two-year-old boy from Indonesia has a cigarette habit, one to the tune of 40 cigarettes a day. “‘He cries and throws tantrums when we don’t let him smoke. He’s addicted,” says father Mohammad to the Daily Mail. Mohammad allowed Ardi to start smoking at just 18 months.

According to statistics cited by the Daily Mail, nearly 3 percent of five to nine year olds in Indonesia are active smokers. Ardi, to his detriment, started prodigiously early.

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