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Two year-old smokes on camera


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Updated: 5/27/2010 10:48 am | Published: 5/26/2010 9:11 pm
Reported by: Kimberly Houk
Smoking baby (Barcroft Media)
Smoking baby (Barcroft Media)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A shocking video went viral Wednesday that might have you talking around the water cooler.

Imagine your neighbor’s two-year-old smoking a pack a day. A Sumatran toddler from Indonesia was caught on tape puffing on a cigarette as if he were an adult.

The tot smokes up to forty cigarettes a day. The video shows the toddler puffing on a cigarette, holding it, and twirling it in his chubby, little fingers as if he were stuck with an adult smoking habit.

According to news reports, his father gave him his first cigarette at just eighteen months old and now at two they say he throws a tantrum when they refuse to give him one.

When ABC 4 showed the video to viewers in Salt Lake City, their reactions were relatively the same.

“That's horrible, that is sick and wrong, he's basically got no chance in life for anything.”

“I don't think they even deserve to be parents.”

“I think that's irresponsible, their culture is different from ours… so smoking may be more accepted there.”

Take a look and tell ABC 4 what you think.

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tpowellx2122 - 6/2/2010 1:27 PM
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people are different in certain countries and have different rituals, but it's another thing to let your child do something like that.That child you created to smoke it's life away. Thats when you know times have change.Thats a toddler we're looking at smoking it's life away.Thats really disturbing and ashame.

Debbiee - 6/1/2010 1:47 PM
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I'd like to see an interview with his father

ladyK247 - 5/30/2010 8:49 PM
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What is wrong with his parents why would any parent want their child to smoke ,Do they not relize the danger the health risk, the time they are shortening their sons life ,why would they want to give him such a death sentence ,its child abuse .
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