Watch Video: 2 year old smokes two packs of cigarettes a day
In a rare instance, a two-year-old boy in Indonesia smokes two packs of cigarettes a day.
Rapi Ananda Pamungkas, a resident of Sukabum city, started smoking by picking up used butts scattered outside his mother’s market stall. He then started pester passing shoppers to give him cigarettes.
Meanwhile, Rapi’s mother, Maryati, 35, admitted that she buys two packs of cigarettes a day for the boy to stop him from going crazy.
The toddler soon started becoming aggressive and throwing tantrums when he couldn’t get his beloved favourite brand of cigarettes.
“My child is used to smoking while drinking coffee and eating cake. He has been smoking every day for around two months. If I don’t give him a cigarette, my child goes berserk”.
The mother said that it had been difficult to ban her child from smoking because he will “cry all day” if he can’t smoke. "My child is used to smoking while drinking coffee and eating cake," said his mother, Maryati, 35. "He has been smoking every day for around two months. If I don't give him a cigarette, my child goes berserk. "If Rapi doesn't get cigarettes he cannot sleep. He will start rampaging and crying. It's expensive, because we have to buy them for him. He likes to do it all day. He can smoke about 40 every day." -PTC News
