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Too unfit to run: Two-year-old who smokes 40 cigarettes a day puffs away on a toy truck

Taking a deep drag on his cigarette while resting on the steering wheel of his truck, he looks like a parody of a middle-aged lorry driver. But the image covers up a much more disturbing truth: At just the tender age of two, Ardi Rizal's health has been so ruined by his 40-a-day habit that he now struggles to move by himself. The four-stone Indonesia toddler is certainly far too unfit to run around with other children - and his condition is set to rapidly deteriorate. But, despite local officials' offer to buy the Rizal family a new car if the boy quits, his parents feel unable to stop him because he throws massive tantrums if they don't indulge him. His mother, Diana, 26, wept: 'He's totally addicted. 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.' Ardi will smoke only one brand and his habit costs his parents £3.78 a day in Musi Banyuasin, in Indonesia's South Sumatra province. But in spite of this, his fishmonger father Mohammed, 30, said: 'He looks pretty healthy to me. I don't see the problem.' Ardi's youth is the extreme of a disturbing trend. Data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25 per cent of Indonesian children aged three to 15 have tried cigarettes, with 3.2 per cent of those active smokers. The percentage of five to nine year olds lighting up increased from 0.4 per cent in 2001 to 2.8 per cent in 2004, the agency reported. A video of a four-year-old Indonesian boy blowing smoke rings appeared briefly on YouTube in March, prompting outrage before it was removed from the site. Child advocates are speaking out about the health damage to children from second-hand smoke, and the growing pressure on them to smoke in a country where one-third of the population uses tobacco and single cigarettes can be bought for a few cents. Seto Mulyadi, chairman of Indonesia's child protection commission, blames the increase on aggressive advertising and parents who are smokers. 'A law to protect children and passive smokers should be introduced immediately in this country,' he said. A health law passed in 2009 formally recognizes that smoking is addictive, and an anti-smoking coalition is pushing for tighter restrictions on smoking in public places, advertising bans and bigger health warnings on cigarette packages. But a bill on tobacco control has been stalled because of opposition from the tobacco industry. The bill would ban cigarette advertising and sponsorship, prohibit smoking in public, and add graphic images to packaging. Benny Wahyudi, a senior official at the Industry Ministry, said the government had initiated a plan to try to limit the number of smokers, including dropping production to 240 billion cigarettes this year, from 245 billion in 2009. 'The government is aware of the impact of smoking on health and has taken efforts, including lowering cigarette production, increasing its tax and limiting smoking areas,' he said. Mr Mulyadi said a ban on advertising is key to putting the brakes on child and teen smoking.

'If cigarette advertising is not banned, there will be more kids whose lives are threatened because of smoking,' he said. Ubiquitous advertising hit a bump last month when a cigarette company was forced to withdraw its sponsorship of pop star Kelly Clarkson's concert following protests from fans and anti-tobacco groups.

However, imposing a non-smoking message will be difficult in Indonesia, the world's third-largest tobacco consumer. Tubagus Haryo Karbyanto, a member of the National Commission of Tobacco Control, said Indonesia must also address the social conditions that lead to smoking, such as family influence and peer pressure. 'The promotion of health has to be integrated down to the smallest units in our society, from public health centres and local health care centres to the family,' he was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe on Friday. Health Minister Endang Sedyaningsih conceded turning young people off smoking will be difficult in a country where it is perceived as positive because cigarette companies sponsor everything from scholarships to sporting events. 'This is the challenge we face in protecting youth from the dangers of smoking,' she said in a statement on the ministry's website.

Ardi, who is rarely seen without a cigarette, insists on the same brand, costing £78 a day

(my view)-This is sick and has made me sick to my stomach,the parents should be sent to prison for child abuse and attempted murder.

HIM-Teaser-10 days And Counting

Grandmother fined £50 for picking up wrong dog mess (even though she cleaned up after her own pet too)

As a responsible dog owner, Pam Robson always cleans up after her labrador Derik when they go for a walk. So when council wardens accused her of picking up the wrong dog mess, she cheerfully cleaned up a second deposit they said was Derik's and thought no more of it. But the great-grandmother was stunned to receive a £50 fixed penalty for committing a 'dog fouling offence'. She has spent four months facing the threat of court action before the local authority decided to drop the allegation. Victory: Pamela Robson, pictured with Derik, has won her battle against a council after she was handed a £50 fine for picking up the wrong dog poo. Yesterday she told of her anger at Sunderland council's behaviour. Mrs Robson, 60, was walking Derik in a field near her home in Houghton, County Durham, in January when he relieved himself as she chatted on her mobile. After her call, the women's refuge volunteer went straight over to what she thought was Derik's mess and cleared it up. But as she did so, two council enforcement officers walked towards her. Mrs Robson said: 'They claimed I had not picked up the right mess. They took me over to another pile and said, "That's your dog's mess".

'I apologised and said I had honestly picked up what I thought was my dog's business.' She thought that would be the end of the matter, but later received the penalty notice threatening court action, a £1,000 fine and a criminal record if she did not pay

Warning: Pamela holding the fixed penalty notice sent by the council. Mrs Robson wrote to her Labour MP, Fraser Kemp. The authority finally backed down earlier this month after Mr Kemp, who did not stand for re- election on May 6, wrote to officials. Mrs Robson said she was pleased the ticket had been quashed, but added that it never should have been issued in the first place. Sunderland council made no comment. On Tuesday, the Daily Mail's columnist Richard Littlejohn told how blind Albert McFall was handed a £40 fixed penalty notice even though he did not realise his guide dog had fouled waste ground near his home in Renfrew, Scotland. The fine was later withdrawn.

(my view)See this is why i HATE cops and the Council...fucking money grabbing failed abortions.