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Filed under: Medical Conditions, In The News, Weird But True, Health & Safety: Toddlers & Preschoolers, Development: Toddlers & Preschoolers, Behavior: Toddlers & Preschoolers
A 2-year-old chain smoker just came home from rehab. Break out the baby book -- it's time to start a new page.
While most parents forever cherish the first time their toddler gets out of rehab, there is concern Aldi Suganda will relapse and break into the cancer sticks again as he returns home today.
His mother, Diana, tells CBS News she felt powerless to stop him when he first took up smoking. But if the tiny tot starts smoking again, she adds, who can stop him?
"I don't know of what will happen in the future," she tells the network through an interpreter. "We surely hope he will quit ... But what can we do but accept it is as it is?"
A video of Suganda smoking went viral in May. The tot reportedly was smoking 40 cigarettes a day, and a news team from CBS tracked him down in the remote fishing village of Musi Banyuasin on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in July.
CBS News reports he was enjoying a smoke when reporters arrived.
After his story aired, CBS News learned Suganda and his mom were taken to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, for intensive medical and psychological treatment. According to CBS, the treatment was paid for by their local government.
Arriving at the hospital and denied a smoke, Suganda reportedly wailed and smashed his head on the floor. CBS News reports X-rays revealed a thickening on the left wall of his heart. However, it reportedly has more to do with him being overweight than being a chain smoker.
"Unhealthy children will be the future generation of our country," Aris Merdeka Sirait, CEO of Indonesia's National Committee of Child Protection, tells CBS. "It is genocide."
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9-02-2010 @ 1:48PM
john said...I tell you what you do. You take the child away from the parents. That is exactly what you do. Any parent that allows a toddler to smoke even one ciggarrette deserves to lose that child. What kind of excuse is," if he chooses to smoke, what can we do?" How stupid. Who is the parent here? Someone needs to take the child away from the parents. Stop buying him smokes stupid ass. He can't go to a store and get them himself. What an idiot. What is this world coming to?
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9-03-2010 @ 8:36AM
JIMMY said...Another article said that the neighbors and tourists gave him cigarettes because it amused them to watch the Budda baby smoke.They have different laws in Indonesia than here and no known laws against a child smoking.
9-02-2010 @ 6:56PM
janeah said...HE is 2 and you don't know what to do?????? Get him out of that home! Thats what you do!!!!! No child should be allowed to smoke-no matter what the age! What poor excuse for parents! This makes me sick!
9-02-2010 @ 8:28PM
Karen said...Perfectly said! I don't need to say anything! :-)
9-03-2010 @ 1:25AM
J.E.B. said...Is this some kind of mindless joke? Those so-called parents don't deserve to have kids! Take that misguided child away from those enablers, and NEVER llow them to have children AGAIN! Sheesh!
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9-03-2010 @ 2:34AM
ron said...what the f---k!
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9-04-2010 @ 11:40AM
LC said...Can't say it better than it's been said already.
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9-05-2010 @ 6:20AM
pamela said...I,am sorry to say this but u are a poor excuse for a parent,I,am a smoker and would not let my children smoke.Now i would agree their would be nothing u could do "if" the child was 18yrs old,But he is NOT the child is 2YEARS OLD FOR CRIST SAKE!Why on earth don't u feel their is anything u can do about it.So you are saying that if your 2yr old wanted to do hard core drugs,drink or get into criminal acticvities you would not even bother to stop him because as u say their is nothing u can do.My cigarettes are bad enough for me,why on earth would i encourage my child to start a habit that is being shuned by everyone everywere?
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