Ross
8th October 2010, 21:36
60 Minutes are running this story tonight in Australia.
What I did see in the advertising of this was disturbing beyond belief, which prompted me to find more.
The average age of Children starting to smoke used to be 19yrs, this has now been changed to 7yrs.
Ardi Rizal, who weighs four stone, laughs and responds to the adults around him as he sits on his plastic tricycle and inhales deeply from frequent drags on a cigarette.
His father reportedly gave him his first cigarette when he was 18 months old and now he smokes 40 a day.
His mother says he beats his head against the wall unless he gets nicotine, but his father insists he is "healthy".
His mother, Diana, 26, said: "He’s totally addicted. If he doesn’t get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall. He tells me he feels dizzy and sick."
But his fishmonger father, Mohammed, 30, doesn’t appear to understand the health implications facing his child: "He looks pretty healthy to me. I don’t see the problem."
Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/two-year-old-smokes-40-cigarettes-a-day-121479.html#ixzz11o095vfj
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/two-year-old-baby-smokes-40-cigarettes-a-day.html
http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/two-year-old-smokes-40-cigarettes-a-day-121479.html#ixzz0puJCdK00
I will update more after I view the 60 minutes report.
Regards
Ross
What I did see in the advertising of this was disturbing beyond belief, which prompted me to find more.
The average age of Children starting to smoke used to be 19yrs, this has now been changed to 7yrs.
Ardi Rizal, who weighs four stone, laughs and responds to the adults around him as he sits on his plastic tricycle and inhales deeply from frequent drags on a cigarette.
His father reportedly gave him his first cigarette when he was 18 months old and now he smokes 40 a day.
His mother says he beats his head against the wall unless he gets nicotine, but his father insists he is "healthy".
His mother, Diana, 26, said: "He’s totally addicted. If he doesn’t get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall. He tells me he feels dizzy and sick."
But his fishmonger father, Mohammed, 30, doesn’t appear to understand the health implications facing his child: "He looks pretty healthy to me. I don’t see the problem."
Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/two-year-old-smokes-40-cigarettes-a-day-121479.html#ixzz11o095vfj
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/two-year-old-baby-smokes-40-cigarettes-a-day.html
http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/two-year-old-smokes-40-cigarettes-a-day-121479.html#ixzz0puJCdK00
I will update more after I view the 60 minutes report.
Regards
Ross