Chain-Smoking Indonesian Tot Continues His Habit On Camera (VIDEO)

Though his parents previously vowed to get help, 2-year-old Aldi Suganda Rizal -- the Indonesian toddler who caused a sensation in May when video footage of him smoking a cigarette turned up online -- continues to indulge his nicotine habit.

CBS reporters tracked Aldi and his parents down in a tiny fishing village on the island of Sumatra. As if on cue, Aldi appeared, cigarette in hand, alongside his mother, Diana. The new footage is perhaps even more disturbing than the original clip. In several shots, the toddler -- said to have started smoking at just 11 months -- uses one already lit cigarette to light another.

"If he can really quit smoking, he will definitely be a very healthy boy," Diana says. She noted her son is currently enrolled in a government-sponsored rehabilitation program, but continues to throw tantrums and even vomit when he can't smoke. "I can't stand seeing him hurting himself. What can we do but accept it as it is?"

Authorities have called Aldi "a victim of his environment," as Indonesia is the only country in the Asia-Pacific region that has yet to ratify the World Health Organization's framework on tobacco control.

See the CBS footage here:

Comments

[ngstores]

11:39 AM on 07/09/2010

may be he could use tutuneson to give up smoking... http://www­.tutuneson­.com

[Hem Chamroeun Sanha]

07:46 AM on 07/09/2010

Although he wants to smoke by himself, we have to let him stop smoking because smoking will affect his health badly from day-to-day­. Smoking will slow his physical growth, mental developmen­t, and cause him have lung disease. We can stop him step by step, not too forced because his bad habit can be changed and change takes time. This change takes short or long time is to depend on his parents' methods.

[Uggg]

06:41 AM on 07/08/2010

Its been up for 2 weeks HP please replace the story

[seereene1]

03:54 PM on 07/07/2010

Man everytime i come across this picture on a news site I just wanna slap his little hands. Then i wanna slap his momma and daddy. Let him throw a tantrum! Why are parents so weak nowadays - afraid they'll make the kid unhappy by telling him no. If NO is good for you, then NO it is! I guess I'm way too old school. I have a good friend of mine who teaches kindegarte­n and she says is pathetic the parents who stand outside in the parking lot on the first day of school crying. Crying!! Grow up and be a parent and snatch the ciggie out of his hand and stop feeding him whatever it is that's making him soo overweight­. He's gonna have a heart attack before he's 5.

Don't get me wrong. I'm a fluffy-Ame­rican myself - but I'll be danged if I let the little ones who I take care of eat everything they cry for and do anything they want. Next they'll be kids who talk back, then out-of-con­trol teenagers.

[crayola 08b]

03:04 PM on 07/07/2010

with all that smoking i'm surprised he's so fat.

[LiberalDem]

10:57 AM on 07/07/2010

Very sad, but as long as someone is, presumably­, paying the family some money to allow the child to be exploited this will continue.

[harriettubman]

12:34 AM on 07/07/2010

COPD--asth­ma, emphysema, respirator­y problems, lung cancer....­you see this in long term smokers. What will they see in someone who starts at 18 months old? I guess by 10 yrs old he'll show signs of this disease.

[TheMuckraker]

06:42 PM on 07/06/2010

Yes, he will show withdrawal symptoms.
She should have thought of that sooner. The child should be put up for adoption..­. He deserves better parents. Whats next, Heroin?

[BikeFreak]

08:09 PM on 07/06/2010

I agree.

Next...mos­t likely drinking alcohol.

[TheMuckraker]

06:36 PM on 07/06/2010

Any adult within 10 feet should be arrested for allowing this.

[seereene1]

03:55 PM on 07/07/2010

Immediatel­y taken away from his pitiful parents!

[Stacy Krolczyk]

06:36 PM on 07/06/2010

This kid does not look or act like a 2 year old - we don't see him talk, but I agree about the motor skills - most 2 year olds have trouble writing for an extended period of time with a crayon - I guess the addiction could have matured his grasp? But he looks older than all the kids he's pictured with, too - there is something fishy going on here - although it still sucks if he's a tiny 15 year old and smoking...

[Bobio]

08:26 PM on 07/06/2010

Cigarettes make you more mature. Duh.

[harriettubman]

12:33 AM on 07/07/2010

Just look at the other toddlers smoking and you'll see it is a common occurrence­. They probably develop better motor skills to hold that cigarette and lighter.

[KarateKid]

11:54 PM on 07/05/2010

The real question is: how did this toddler get started in the FIRST place. His parents ought to be put in stocks, the kind used in the US in the 17th century.

[msek]

03:50 PM on 07/05/2010

he is skilled, I mean fine motor skills ;)

[Rony Peanh]

12:36 PM on 07/05/2010

why his parents allow this small child to smoke cigarette that can cause many kinds of disease and it can be a kind of promotion to promulgate other children to do like him.

[RealPlumber]

05:49 PM on 07/04/2010

I'm gonna quit when I lose this baby fat!

[kareemachan]

10:49 AM on 07/04/2010

So the mother is making herself feel better by endangerin­g his life, huh?