Is this the world's youngest smoker? Chinese two-year-old is on a pack a day

 

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Last updated at 3:22 PM on 25th June 2009

 

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Lighting up: Two-year-old Tong Liangliang began smoking at the age of 18 months. He is now on a packet of cigarettes a day

 

A two-year-old Chinese boy is thought to be the world’s youngest smoker.

 

Tong Liangliang was taught how to light up by his father, who believed the habit would alleviate pain caused by a hernia.

 

The toddler now smokes a pack of cigarettes a day and throws a tantrum if he can’t get his fix.

 

‘The father wasn’t aware of how serious the toddler’s habit became until the child began to increase the number of cigarettes he smoked per day’, China Radio International reported.

 

Tong received his first cigarette at the age of 18 months in a bid to reduce the discomfort caused by his hernia. The boy’s tender age meant he was too young to have an operation.

 

In 2005 a 37-year-old man submitted an application to the Guinness Book of Records, claiming to have smoked since the age of three.

 

The man was bidding for an accolade as the world’s youngest smoker, but his application was denied on the grounds that it promoted a harmful habit.

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that is sick.

Let's talk about cigarettes. :rolleyes:

No, let's not !

His father is a stupid asshole !

No, let's not !

His father is a stupid asshole !

 

Yup. He should be locked up for child abuse!!;)

too bad..

but he is not.. well he lit his cigarette....

 

i mean babies whose moms smoke during pregnacy are smoking too, so that kid is not the youngest smoker, sadly. :sick:

No, let's not !

His father is a stupid asshole !

 

Agreed.

too bad..

but he is not.. well he lit his cigarette....

 

i mean babies whose moms smoke during pregnacy are smoking too, so that kid is not the youngest smoker, sadly. :sick:

 

:stunned: wow, thats true

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They should all be locked up.:angry:

No, let's not !

His father is a stupid asshole !

well if the father let his son smoke tobaco, imagine what crap he may use to smoke :sick:

Let's talk about cigarettes. :rolleyes:

 

i havent heard that in a while :lol:

 

 

 

his father is a sick bastard...

well if the father let his son smoke tobaco, imagine what crap he may use to smoke :sick:

 

Crack by the age of five??:stunned:

Crack by the age of five??:stunned:

as soon as he is for cigarettes and as weird his dad is, it wouldn't surprise me, sadly.

 

poor baby :(

I wonder if that's how Amy Winehouse started out........................... :stunned:

I wonder if that's how Amy Winehouse started out........................... :stunned:

obviously she stared with her creepy husband.

i know other people that have gone to the path as amy. :sick:

obviously she stared with her creepy husband.

i know other people that have gone to the path as amy. :sick:

 

Potty Pete Doherty, for example........................ :rolleyes:

well if the father let his son smoke tobaco, imagine what crap he may use to smoke :sick:

 

Crystal meth?

China white??:rolleyes:

Potty Pete Doherty, for example........................ :rolleyes:

no, unluckily i was refering to real cases i know personally. :(

but those people don't get to a state as Amy is from one day to next one, they are troubled people since their teens.

Ha Mark it's not funny... :P

 

Lungs are so fragile at this age, and it's gonna get worse everyday :\

Ha Mark it's not funny... :P

 

Lungs are so fragile at this age, and it's gonna get worse everyday :\

 

what a poor kid!:bigcry:

Ha Mark it's not funny... :P

 

 

Nobody's saying it's funny. We're only making jokes about the absurdity of it. It's disgraceful!:stunned:

I was talking about that :

"Crack at the age of five ? :stunned:" :P