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# 2-year-old boy smokes 40 cigarettes a day
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/2-year-old_boy_smokes_40_cigarettes_a_day_2705100710/
- Published: 2010-05-27T08:09:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:45:31.000Z
- Description: A video circulating online shows Ardi Rizal, a two-year-old Indonesian boy who reportedly smokes up to 40 cigarettes a day after his first at 18 months. His father says the boy throws tantrums without them and looks healthy. Media reports call 3 percent of Indonesians aged 2 to 15 smokers.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Miscellaneous, Health News, #vivvo-import

A video first released on YouTube yesterday and now circulated everywhere on the internet shows a 2-year old Indonesian boy smokes like an adult.

Ardi Rizal is said to smoke up to 40 cigarettes a day. Ardi started smoking after he was given his first smoke when he was 18 months old.

His father Mohammad Rizal was cited by MSNBC as saying "He cries and throws tantrums when we don't let him smoke. He's addicted," and "I'm not worried about his health, he looks healthy."

Rizal is not the first smoking kid aught on video. In March, a chip of a 4-year-old Indonesian boy blowing smoke rings also appeared on YouTube, a google service.

In Indonesia, up to 10 percent of children aged 2 to 15 tried to smoke cigarettes and 3 percent are real smokers, according to media reports.

Smoking cigarettes increases a number of diseases including atherosclerosis, hypertension, vascular disease, stroke, and tongue cancer, lung cancer, hum disease, osteoporosis, asthma attacks, diabetes, and Buergers disease among others.

JD