Chain Smoking Toddler

When I watched the video of the two year old child from Indonesia smoking cigarettes, I was disturbed.  I think it is sick for that child's parents to allow the young boy to start smoking at 11 months old.  If this child is starting his life off in the this environment then he is bound to end up with health issues.  He is way too young to even know what a cigarette is let alone be smoking four packs a day.  The people he is surrounded with at his young age are very influential on how he will turn out to be as he grows older.  He has no boundaries in this environment and that is not a good place for a child to be raised in.  The one thing that I would definitely recommend in this situation is for the child to be immediately removed from this environment and go to rehab until he no longer has the addiction to nicotine. Luckily, this is exactly what happened once government office got involved.  I do not think that the US would ever let our country get to the extreme that Indonesia is at with their problem of children smoking.  In my opinion I think the US has gotten better with cigarettes and other drugs.  The price of a pack of cigarettes in NJ is about $8. In Indonesia, the price of a pack of cigarettes is about $1.  This has reduced the amount of people in our country who smoke cigarettes by a lot.  I think that our country is headed in the right direction in terms of cigarettes and getting them out of places where they are harmful to people, especially kids.

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