Smoking is one of the most common public health problems worldwide. In fact, the World Health Organization considers smoking to be one of the biggest threats the planet can face, as it states on its official page: “It causes more than eight million deaths annually, of which about 1.2 million are smoking, due to exposure to secondhand smoke”.
This is really worrying because None of the presentations provided a safe level of exposure to tobacco. (it can be smokeless tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, rolled tobacco or shredded tobacco) and is associated with the burden of morbidity and mortality present in low- and middle-income countries.
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Now, if tobacco is already a negative thing, imagine how controversial it would be to see a child smoking. Additionally, In 2010, a video of a baby in Indonesia went around the world because of the story behind it: when the little boy was just 18 months old, he was smoking up to 40 cigarettes a day.
You probably remember the clip that was uploaded to YouTube showing a boy with a cigarette in his mouth and wearing diapers riding a tricycle. This image has become a worldwide alarm, warning of the public health crisis related to tobacco addiction.
But twelve years later, the same baby who became the spitting image of the dangers of smoking is now considered one of the youngest people to break this addiction.
Ardi Rizal’s story begins in Indonesia. He started playing cigarettes in the village square of Teluk Kemang, south of Sumatra City. His mother was selling fish nearby, and he was looking for those thin white cylinders he had seen a lot on the streets.
According to an interview conducted by the Indonesian Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection, this activity caught her attention. The first person to give him cigarettes at such a young age was his father.
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“I kept seeing people smoking and it looked delicious,” the boy told Australia’s ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’ channel in 2017. According to the interview, the boy had a serious smoking problem that made the biggest headlines in the international media.
latter, Rizal’s problem is complete with a worrying obesity problembecause in subsequent articles on the follow-up to the case, Rizal reportedly weighed 24kg at age 5, which is almost six kilograms more than it should have been considering his height and age.
After images of Aldi circulated the world, he and his family sought help. This is how she started her little boy life three years later. Rehabilitation process with child psychologist Doctor Seto Mulyadi.
With the video going viral, Diana was accused of being a bad mother both for allowing her son to smoke and for the baby’s extraordinary obesity. But what they don’t know is that if she forbade him to smoke or eat, Aldi was somehow taking action against him.
“The first thing I did was confiscate the cigarettes and he had a tantrum. He started hitting him on the head and he even stabbed himself in the knee with a knifeThe woman tried everything to get her son’s cigarette from her, but it was a futile struggle until she started therapy with Muyaldi.
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In addition, her obesity problem since she was two years old was attributed to her addiction and later exacerbated by the anxiety of quitting smoking. According to the boy’s mother, Diana, Aldi can eat up to three chicken legs, two bowls of meatball soup, and a can of condensed milk at one meal.
“I ate too much every time I had the urge to smokeEven so, that changed when he started school. His parents sent him a large lunchbox because if he didn’t eat what he wanted, he would not only throw a huge tantrum but also threaten to run away. But when his classmates made fun of the amount of food he was carrying, decided to reduce their portions.
Now, the young primary school boy follows a strict fish and vegetable based diet to regain his normal weight, while also trying to promote healthy lifestyle habits and in turn, He gives interviews warning of how complicated it is to let go of this type of product.
It’s easy to see why the video is so controversial: I was a smoking kidan unhealthy practice that shows there’s a bigger problem behind it.
In an article published by Revista Mexicana de Pediatría, worldwide, About 40 percent of children are exposed to second-hand smoke, and a quarter of adolescents who smoke He did it for the first time before he was 10 years old. These numbers are alarming, but even more so in countries where regulation is low and where adult populations are encouraged by advertising and the market for such practices.
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In fact, a survey by the Indonesian government in 2015 revealed that 85 percent of schools in the region are surrounded by cigarette advertisements. But that’s not all. According to the ‘Tobacco Atlas’ conference, it is estimated that More than 267,000 children consume tobacco products daily in the Asian country.
However, this is not the only place in the world facing the problem. According to the numbers, In Russia, 51 percent of men over the age of 15 consider themselves to be frequent smokers. The same is happening in Papua New Guinea, and China is on the same track, as 41 percent of youth smoke.
In Mexico, more than 53,000 smokers die each year from smoking-related diseases. In his article titled ‘Smoking children and adolescents, the need for precaution’ published by Guadalupe Soto Estrada, an epidemiologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the nationally conducted and Between 1990 and 2002, more than eight million young people started using tobacco before the age of 17.
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