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Images of a two-year-old smoking cigarettes have people in Indonesia. The little boy, Ardi Rizal from Sumatra, is to nicotine and smokes 40 cigarettes a day. Videos of Ardi puffing away on a cigarette emerged this week on YouTube. The , now removed, shows him smoking like a true pro. His father, Mohammed Rizal, thinks there’s no problem with his son’s nasty . He told reporters that his child looked and that was the only thing that was important. He went on to how Ardi took up smoking when he was 18 months old. That was when he gave his son his first cigarette. Now he’s totally ; he tantrums if his father does not let him smoke.

Ardi’s story is part of a trend in Indonesia. Government statistics 25 per cent of Indonesian kids aged between 3 and 15 have smoked and that over 3 per cent are smokers. Indonesia is the world’s third largest smoking nation. Cigarettes are and smoking is still seen as a acceptable practice. Health Minister Endang Sedyaningsih said youngsters from smoking would be very difficult because people believe smoking is a good thing. She said tobacco companies are well liked because they many things from education to and public events. She added: “This is the we face in youth from the dangers of smoking.”