Meet Ardi Rizal, a two-year-old Sumatran baby who smokes some forty cigarettes a day. The government has offered to buy his parents a car if he stops, but they claim he gets too angry without smokes. Plus, he looks fine!
"He looks pretty healthy to me. I don't see the problem," says his dad. Well except that he's a tad overweight and so unfit from the flab and the smoking — which he's been doing since his 30-year-old father gave him a cigarette at 18 months old — that he can't play with the other kids. But whatever. He's a baby, smoking! He'll be too famous for exercise. Here's the astonishingly appalling video.
THESE are the first shocking pictures of smoking toddler Ardi Rizal - who throws tantrums if he can't puff 40 cigs a day.
The Sun told on Saturday how the two-year-old got hooked after dad Mohammed gave him a fag at 18 months.
Now he weighs 4st and trundles round on a toy truck blowing smoke rings - too unfit to run with other kids.
Mum 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."
No kidding ... 4st toddler Ardi Rizal is too unfit to run round with pals
Barcroft Ardi will smoke only one brand and his habit costs his parents £3.78 a day in Musi Banyuasin, Indonesia.
Officials have offered to buy the family a car if he quits.
But fishmonger Mohammed, 30, said: "He looks pretty healthy to me. I don't see the problem."
