2-Year-Old Smokes 2 Packs A Day

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Video of a 2-year-old Indonesian boy whose parents claim he smokes two packs of cigarettes a day is causing a firestorm online.

Ardi Rizal throws a temper tantrum when his parents refuse him a cigarette. His father said he gave him his first when he was just 18 months old.

"I'm not worried about his health; he looks healthy," Mohammad Rizal told The Associated Press. "He cries and throws tantrums when we don't let him smoke. He's addicted."

The YouTube video shows the boy puffing away on a cigarette and winking at the camera. Pictures show him riding on a small toy truck with a smoking cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

"He's totally addicted," his weeping mother, Diane Rizal, 26, told the London Sun. "If he doesn't get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall. He tells me he feels dizzy and sick."

Rizal isn't the first smoking youngster caught on tape. In March, a video of a 4-year-old Indonesian boy blowing smoke rings appeared briefly on YouTube, prompting outcries before it was removed from the site.

Ardi's youth is the extreme of a disturbing trend. Data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25 percent of Indonesian children aged 3 to 15 have tried cigarettes, with 3.2 percent of those active smokers.