A 6-year-old Indonesian boy addicted to smoking is being praised by his parents for cutting down to five cigarettes a day.
Dihan Muhamad — who has been smoking since he was a toddler — has scaled back his daily nicotine intake from two packs, as Indonesian activists ramp up a campaign to put out the widespread problem amongst the country’s children, the Global Post reported.
"He was sick, he was coughing a lot, and the doctor said he had to quit," Dihan's mother Sulawati told the news site. "He's been trying hard, and now he just smokes five a day."
The child chain-smoker from Cicapar was featured in an August 2014 photo of TIME magazine, which highlighted the alarming smoking rate in Indonesia, where some children take their first puffs at age 4 and cigarette advertisements are plastered everywhere.
He only started smoking less a few months ago, according to the Global Post, but still often lights up with his father, a tobacco farmer, in their one-bedroom home.
"If I grabbed the cigarette from him he would just start crying," Iyan told the publication.
Honestly, if he cried when his parents took the cigarettes from him, so what? Parents don't give anything children wants. I'm really mindblown by the bad parenting.
I'm confused as I don't know the whole story, but how does a child have access to cigarettes, how does he even learn to smoke, he's 6 ffs
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The child chain-smoker from Cicapar was featured in an August 2014 photo of TIME magazine, which highlighted the alarming smoking rate in Indonesia, where some children take their first puffs at age 4 and cigarette advertisements are plastered everywhere.
He only started smoking less a few months ago, according to the Global Post, but still often lights up with his father, a tobacco farmer, in their one-bedroom home.
All questions asked in the thread are answered above, just read past the bolded text in the OP.
