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They say you shouldn’t judge a parent until you have kids of your own and I guess that argument has some merit. Oh, except when you have a child like two year-old Ardi Rizal, an Indonesian toddler who smokes forty cigarettes a day (see a picture here). Yeah…that’s not good. Though, man, does he look cool or what?

Ardi, from Musi Banyuasin in Sumatra, Indonesia, will smoke only one brand and his habit costs his parents £3.78 a day – in a province where the minimum wage is around £69 a month.

The two-year-old now weighs 4 stone, and trundles round on a toy truck blowing smoke rings as he is too unfit to run with the other children.

His 26-year-old mother Diana, who has been trying to get him to quit but with little success, said: ‘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.’

Officials have offered to buy the family a car if he quits, but his father said: ‘He looks pretty healthy to me. I don’t see the problem.’

Two-year-old boy Ardi Rizal smokes 40 cigarettes a day [Metro.co.uk]

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