2 year old baby in Indonesia, smokes 40 cigarettes a day!!!

This is what a 2 year old baby should be doing daily.


This is a normal baby, playing around like a baby


Babies are supposed to behave like this in their tender years


But definitely not like the combos of pictures below :




















At the tender age of 2 years old, Ardi Rizal of Sumatra, Indonesia has grabbed world headlines for his chain smoking habit.

This youngest super heavy cigarette smoker will cry, bang the wall and get extremely angry if his parents refused to supply him with at least 2 packs of cigarettes daily, which is equivalent to 40 sticks per day!!!

But, despite local officials' offer to buy the Rizal family a new car if the boy quits, his parents feel unable to stop him because he throws massive tantrums if they don't indulge him.

His mother, Diana, 26, wept: 'He's totally addicted. If he doesn't get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall. He tells me he feels dizzy and sick.'

Ardi will smoke only one brand and his habit costs his parents £3.78 or around USD6 or RM20 a day in Musi Banyuasin, in Indonesia's South Sumatra province.

But in spite of this, his fishmonger father Mohammed, 30, said: 'He looks pretty healthy to me. I don't see the problem.'

Ardi's youth is the extreme of a disturbing trend in Indonesia and also the world.

Data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25 per cent of Indonesian children aged three to 15 have tried cigarettes, with 3.2 per cent of those active smokers.

The percentage of five to nine year olds lighting up increased from 0.4 per cent in 2001 to 2.8 per cent in 2004, the agency reported.

However, imposing a non-smoking message will be difficult in Indonesia, the world's third-largest tobacco consumer.

The most popular cigarrete brand in Indonesia is of course the Gudang Garam Surya.

To Ardi Rizal, please CUT DOWN!!!

barack obama and no smoking zone

Excuse me Mr President, you can't smoke in the White House... yes, change we can, believe in me... Barack Obama has been smoking since he was in the mid 20s and he is changing the bad habit. Reuters reported that the U.S. President-elect Barack Obama failed to give a straight answer when asked on a U.S. talkshow on Sunday whether he had managed to quit smoking.

In a country where cigarettes are responsible for 1 in 5 deaths and smoking costs tens of billions of dollars in health care, Obama has been under pressure to set an example by giving up his reported two-decade-old habit. (old habits die hard ehhhh!!)

But the question of what brand of cigarretes he smoke still lingers in my mind. I smoke Dunhill.

Obama was often observed on the presidential campaign trail chewing Nicorette gum, which helps ease the craving for nicotine. He has tried several times to quit.



The 47-year-old president-elect, who takes office on January 20, works out daily at the gym and sometimes plays basketball, and is fit to serve as U.S. president.

Gerald Ford, who served from 1974-77, was the last U.S. president to use tobacco on a regular basis. The White House no-smoking rule was imposed by former First Lady Hillary Clinton, now Obama's nominee for secretary of state...!!

But i bet there is no such no smoking zone at Fidel Castro's official residence in Havana!!!