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Smoking Indonesian baby quits
ABOVE: Neil Mitchell wants to know if listeners think the video or images of the 'smoking baby' in Indoensia could be used in an anti-smoking commercial.
'Arrogant little twit that he was," said Neil of the two-year-old.
REPORT: A two-year-old Indonesian boy who smoked about 40 cigarettes a day has kicked the habit after receiving intensive specialist care, a child welfare official said on Thursday.
Ardi Rizal shocked the world when a video of him drawing heavily on cigarettes appeared on the internet in May and drew attention to Indonesia's failure to regulate the tobacco industry.
"He has quit smoking and the most important thing is he doesn't ask for cigarettes any more," national commission for child protection secretary-general Arist Merdeka Sirait told AFP.
Two-year-old Indonesian boy Ardi Rizal. Photo: AHMAD NAAFI
Six months after his father gave him his first cigarette, the overweight boy was smoking two packs a day and threw violent tantrums if his addiction was not satisfied.
Accompanied by his mother, the boy left his village on Sumatra island in July to undergo treatment in the capital.
"He received psychosocial therapy for one month, during which therapists kept him busy with activities and encouraged him to play with kids of the same age," Sirait said.
"We diverted his addiction from cigarettes to playing."
Ardi's case has highlighted the tobacco industry's aggressive marketing to women and children in developing countries like Indonesia, where regulations are weak and many people do not know that smoking is dangerous.
Sirait said the government had given financial support to Ardi's parents, who were ignorant of smoking's dangers and used cigarettes to keep the toddler happy as they worked long hours at a street market.
"Ardi was very happy when he left Jakarta this morning as he has really missed his father in the village," Sirait said.
Cigarette consumption in the southeast Asian archipelago of some 240 million people soared 47 per cent in the 1990s, according to the World Health Organization.
AFP via Fairfax
Blog comments
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He is NOT an arrogant little twit Neil. He is a two year old kid. What the hell does a two year old know about ANYTHING? It's a game to him. Something the adults around him laugh at and encoureage. Adults put the smokes into his hands and taught him how to do it. Those adults should be charged and jailed for child abuse.
Max Saturday 4 September, 2010 - 3:11 PM -
This has to be a hoax. Nicotine is highly toxic to children and there is no way a toddler could smoke 40 cigs a day and not die.
This is a midget I'm sure. Check out the adult mannerisms.cynica Saturday 4 September, 2010 - 1:41 PM
