Seeing him rest on the steering wheel of his toy truck, smoking a cigarette, you might think heās a truck driver stuck in the body of a toddler, butĀ Ardi RizalĀ is really just a two-year-old boy who loves to smoke.
The 56-pound toddler, from Indonesiaās South Sumatra province, smokes 2 packs of cigarettes a day and sits on his toy truck all day long. Thereās hardly ever a moment in the day when Ardi isnāt puffing away on a cigarette, and thatās the main reason why he can hardly move by himself anymore, let alone run along and play with other children.
His mother has desperately forced the toddler to quit, but he always got so angry that he started screaming and banging h
is head against the walls, saying quitting makes him dizzy and sick. He also asks for a specific brand of cigarettes, that costs his family $5.50 a day. While his mother is set on somehow getting Ardi to quit, his father says: āHe looks pretty healthy to me, I donāt see the problem.ā Now, this is what I call a ‘great’ parent.
Although authorities have even offered the Ardi Rizalās parents a brand new car, if they convince him to stop smoking, the
parents donāt dare ask him anymore.
