A 2-year-old boy from Sukabumi, Indonesia, has become so addicted to smoking that he smokes up to 40 cigarettes a day.
Rapi Ananda Pamungkas started by picking up used butts outside his mum’s market stall. Within days he became addicted and would endlessly pester passing shoppers to give him cigarettes.
At first, the adults found the toddler’s demands novel and offered him cigarettes, thinking it was a joke. But Rapi nicknamed Rap soon started becoming aggressive and throwing tantrums when he couldn’t get cigarettes.
Rapi’s mother, Maryati, 35, confessed on Monday that she buys two packs of cigarettes a day for the boy to stop him from going “beserk”.
She said: “My child is used to smoking while drinking coffee and eating cake. He has been smoking every day for around two months. If I don’t give him a cigarette, my child goes berserk.”
Rapi’s father, Misbahudin, 40, said he also smokes but doesn’t know why his child started the habit.
