A two-year-old Indonesian boy who smokes about 40 cigarettes a day will have specialist treatment next week to wean him off his habit, officials said Friday.

Little Ardi Rizal became an Internet sensation and unwitting poster-boy for Indonesia's failure to regulate smoking after a video of him greedily puffing on a cigarette appeared online last month.

"The boy was able to stop smoking for about two hours after we distracted his attention with toys," the chairman of the National Commission for Child Protection, Seto Mulyadi, told AFP.

The toddler from Sumatra island reportedly became a nicotine addict after his father gave him his first cigarette at just 18 months old.!!

His parents say he throws tantrums and beats his head against a wall if denied cigarettes, but his father nonetheless insists he is "healthy".

The case has highlighted the tobacco industry's aggressive marketing to women and children in developing countries like Indonesia, where regulations are weak and many people do not know that smoking is dangerous.

I wonder where we've seen this before! Oh - on TF...

I've not...

i know it's all wrong but f**k those pics are funny..

yawwwwwwwn - 4th post - and he's cut down to 15 a day now. Thank god we dont rely on Samy for current affairs or he would just be reporting the Vietnam War...

He doesn't look healthy to me. He is like a boy with a face of a 30 years old. Glad to hear that someone does something to help him. Some people don't deserve to have any kid.

OMG!!! o_O

He's moved on to cigars and brandy now...old news.

I must say those photos look very bizarre seeing a child that age smoking.. I just can't get sensitized to seeing that visual... WoW!!