{"id":581119,"date":"2010-05-27T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=13467"},"modified":"2010-05-27T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:42:10","slug":"two-year-old-smokes-40-cigarettes-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581119","title":{"rendered":"Two-year-old smokes 40 cigarettes a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13471\" title=\"Two years old smokes 40 cigarettes a day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Two-years-old-smokes-40-cigarettes-a-day-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"Two years old smokes 40 cigarettes a day\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" \/>I don&#8217;t know if you remember Liangliang Tong, a <strong>two-year-old <\/strong>who smoked like a 40-years-old. However, Tong was an apprentice compared to the giant <strong>Ardi Rizal<\/strong>, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ardi <\/strong>lives in Sumatra (Indonesia), has two years and smokes forty cigarettes a day. Sumatra is a small fishing village of Musi Banyuasin where 25% of children already tried smoking and 3.2% are active smokers. No doubt their parents know how to care of their son, Mohamed (30 years), the father of the child, gave him his first cigarette when <strong>Ardi <\/strong>was 18-months-old and is not at all worried about the health of small boy &#8230; He says he looks healthy!<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>two-year-old<\/strong> who weighs 25 kilos, has trouble walking and if he doesn&#8217;t get cigarettes he gets angry, screams and bangs his head against the wall &#8220;, as confirmed by Diana (26 years), mother the baby.<\/p>\n<p>Diana insists that he is &#8220;an addict&#8221;, and when <strong>Ardi <\/strong> doesn&#8217;t smoke, &#8220;says he feels dizzy and sick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Organizations defending the rights of children in Indonesia begun to discuss openly about the health damage caused by the smoke, in a country where one third of the population is addicted to smoking and cigarettes can be bought for about a few cents.<\/p>\n<p>The health minister Endang Sedyaningsih\u00a0acknowledged that\u00a0convincing\u00a0 young people that smoking is harmful is difficult, because in Indonesia is perceived as something positive and cigarette companies are big sponsors of scholarships, sporting events and campaigns of all kinds.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/health\/2010\/chain-smoker-toddler-burns-40-sticks-daily\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Chain-smoker Toddler Burns 40 Sticks Daily'>Chain-smoker Toddler Burns 40 Sticks Daily<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/health\/2010\/watch-a-two-year-old-smoking-like-a-pro\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Watch a Two-year-old Smoking Like a Pro'>Watch a Two-year-old Smoking Like a Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/health\/2010\/new-%e2%80%98no-smoking%e2%80%99-signs-in\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: New \u2018No Smoking\u2019 signs in Massachusetts'>New \u2018No Smoking\u2019 signs in Massachusetts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sevensidedcube\/OXLF\/~4\/f8sDvnl1Unc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you remember Liangliang Tong, a two-year-old who smoked like a 40-years-old. However, Tong was an apprentice compared to the giant Ardi Rizal, unfortunately. Ardi lives in Sumatra (Indonesia), has two years and smokes forty cigarettes a day. Sumatra is a small fishing village of Musi Banyuasin where 25% of children already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}