Chain-Smoking 2-Year-Old: Is Therapy Enough?
SodaHead Living
2010/06/08 11:42:03
The chain-smoking 2-year-old who shocked the world with his 40-cigarettes-a-day habit has cut back to 15 cigarettes a day thanks to "therapy focused on playing," a child welfare official said, according to AFP.
Six months after his father gave him his first cigarette, overweight Indonesian toddler Ardi Rizal was smoking up to 40 cigarettes a day and threw violent tantrums if his addiction was not satisfied.
Child welfare officials were called in to wean the toddler off cigarettes and said when they played with him, he did not smoke as much.
Chairman of Indonesia's national commission for child protection, Seto Mulyadi, said the therapy focused on playing with toys so the Sumatra toddler would forget about cigarettes.
"The boy has been able to reduce his cigarette intake significantly, very quickly, after the treatment," he said. "The boy likes singing songs so we tell him that if he continues smoking, he won't be able to be a singer one day, and it works."
Which leads us to wonder: Is the boy’s father paying any price for passing on a deadly habit to his baby? Or did he honestly not know any better?
Six months after his father gave him his first cigarette, overweight Indonesian toddler Ardi Rizal was smoking up to 40 cigarettes a day and threw violent tantrums if his addiction was not satisfied.
Child welfare officials were called in to wean the toddler off cigarettes and said when they played with him, he did not smoke as much.
Chairman of Indonesia's national commission for child protection, Seto Mulyadi, said the therapy focused on playing with toys so the Sumatra toddler would forget about cigarettes.
"The boy has been able to reduce his cigarette intake significantly, very quickly, after the treatment," he said. "The boy likes singing songs so we tell him that if he continues smoking, he won't be able to be a singer one day, and it works."
Which leads us to wonder: Is the boy’s father paying any price for passing on a deadly habit to his baby? Or did he honestly not know any better?
Read More: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/08/2921...
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Hula girl - Friends not Fol... 2010/06/08 19:20:01
+6The kid will die early....his lungs are just too little to handle it and as he grows and he can't support the larger body with his damaged lungs he's going to be in a world of breathing hurt. This father should be in jail for child abuse.
Unless he is a drunk.........or a drug user.
he's gonna die.
The parents should be in jail! Are they crackheads?
respond if u agree!
since when :O
im guessing he didnt know any better :/
No, they don't know any better- look at how many years it took to teach Americans that smoking was bad for them.