Baby smokes 40 cigs a day...

[Jaro65]

This is sad.

 

[AAPLaday]

I guess Don Draper was just too good at his job ...

 

[roadbloc]

I don't have any statistics, put I've seen plenty of overweight people sucking tar and nicotine sticks.

Thats really odd, because I've actually put on weight since I've quit.
I guess it just effects people in different ways. And it may also depend on how many you smoke. I used smoke about 15 a day. I think I got to 36 on a really boring day, and that was the most I ever smoked in one day.

 

[iBlue]

Thats really odd, because I've actually put on weight since I've quit.
I guess it just effects people in different ways. And it may also depend on how many you smoke. I used smoke about 15 a day. I think I got to 36 on a really boring day, and that was the most I ever smoked in one day.

That could be because you didn't smoke enough to cause your lungs the sort of damage that would slow you down physically. To the average - light smoker who doesn't massively overeat a little weight gain after quitting seems normal. It's the ones who overeat and then can't hardly take a few steps without getting winded that have a big problem. That seems to be the case with this child.

 

[Gregg2]

Thats really odd, because I've actually put on weight since I've quit.

Not odd when you read what it was in response to. You don't seriously think that there aren't any overweight people who smoke. I was just making the observation that smoking, in and of itself, is not the primary cause of a person being thin or fat. Now, going from being a smoker to a non-smoker will often affect weight. I'm not sure if it's as much of a factor going the other way. In other words, don't go on a smoker's diet!

 

[ValSalva]

I would normally say this is natural selection at work, but the parents aren't reaping any consequences for their (or the baby's) actions, and subsequently won't be killed for being so stupid. Therefore Darwin fails on this example, unless somebody does us all a favor and puts a nice fat one in their temples.

Can't say Darwinism really applies to the baby either... I can't really hold a mere child who is barely able to form congruent thoughts accountable to evolutionary trends; once older, now that's a different story.

With that said, the sick part in me does find this a little funny, especially all of the imagery involved. But I digress, as most of us will simply repress this little inkling of a thought.

It's all Darwinism really. The parents won't pass on their genetic material to an offspring who will reproduce. The baby obviously will not have any reproductive advantage, assuming he even lives to reproduce. It's all about survival to reproduce not necessarily survival of the fittest.

Nevertheless, it is very sad. If this were in the US the parents would be accused of child abuse and have the kid taken away. Rightly in this sad case.

 

[Frisco]

Anyone you believed the original video was real is a fool. It was obviously a hoax!

Wake up people!

 

[Avatar Tempus]

Very disturbing to say the least.

 

[Gregg2]

Anyone you believed the original video was real is a fool. It was obviously a hoax!

Actually, I've been waiting to hear that story since last posting in this thread. It didn't occur to me right away that it might be fake, maybe because their were "quotes" included from the kid's Dad. But, you're probably right. The kid handled the thing like a pro. But then I thought, who lit it? How does the kid not to burn himself? etc. etc.

But, you're a bit harsh. Gullible, yes. The media all bought into it. I'd think by now they've tried to verify the story. Maybe they're all just too embarrassed to admit they were taken.

 

[Mac'nCheese]

If that's a fake, that the best cgi fat smoking baby ever created. Makes ILM work look like ****. Now, maybe if they can make that fat bastard dance, the you-tube hits will be epic.

 

[Gregg2]

Latest report: parents say they have both stopped smoking, and have managed to restrict the kid's daily intake by several cigs. The report also says that it is common for kids there to smoke, but usually from age five, not two! The people there are just not aware of the health risks of smoking.

 

[mscriv]

A slightly different perspective

Mom Forces 5-Year-Old to Smoke Cigarette and Run Continuously

An East Tennessee woman is accused of forcing her 5-year-old son to smoke a cigarette, to teach him a lesson. But now authorities intend to teach the mother a lesson, by charging her with child abuse.

Carter County Deputy Cory Tidwell said that in response to a complaint by a witness, he stopped Jordan Paige Hensley in a car, and she told him she had forced her son to smoke a cigarette because "she was teaching him not to smoke."

Tidwell told the Johnson City Press that the 24-year-old Hensley was arrested Tuesday night on charges of child abuse and neglect, disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana.

JohnsonCityPress.com reported that in addition to the cigarette incident, Tidwell said he also saw the child running around and his mother screaming at him to keep running. He stated the child fell to the ground screaming that he couldn't keep running, but his mother jerked him up and ordered him to keep on going.

Hensley was being held on a $12,500 bond.

LINK WARNING - scary mugshot alert

Why did it have to be my home state?!?

 

[iRance]

There should be a law that you need an IQ of over than 10 to have a baby.

 

[MrCheeto]

Well we have to be sensitive to da poor widdle widiots, and that would vwiolate their human wights.

I'm sick of this. When can we say, "**** you, idiot," and get on with furthering society?!

 

[Gregg2]

There should be a law that you need an IQ of over than 10 to have a baby.

Wouldn't be enforceable. Maybe to raise a child... (bad grammar, but "rear" sounds weird)

 

[longball11]

unfortunate. Rehabilitation..for the baby AND parents.

 

[rdowns]

Saw an article yesterday (too lazy to go look) that the kid is down to 15 a day.

 

[Mac'nCheese]

Saw an article yesterday (too lazy to go look) that the kid is down to 15 a day.

Unfortunately, he gained another 30 pounds. Risks of quitting smoking do include weight gain.....

 

[elhazard9000]

those parents should be thrown in jail ASAP. Freaks.

 

[Gregg2]

Unfortunately, he gained another 30 pounds. Risks of quitting smoking do include weight gain.....

Well, he's still a baby. They grow.

 

[benflick]

I'll admit, I laughed when I saw this on Inside Edition (or Access Hollywood-I can't remember).
If the little bastard wants to smoke, let him. When he is diagnosed with emphysema and oral cancer before he turns ten, tell him he knew the consequences. The only downfall to that plan being the parents having to pay for his addiction.

 

[Mac'nCheese]

Thank goodness!

According to MSNBC, the kid has kicked the habit!

 

[anjinha]

I'll admit, I laughed when I saw this on Inside Edition (or Access Hollywood-I can't remember).
If the little bastard wants to smoke, let him. When he is diagnosed with emphysema and oral cancer before he turns ten, tell him he knew the consequences. The only downfall to that plan being the parents having to pay for his addiction.

He's a baby, how the hell does he know the consequences???

 

[derekamoss]

Yeah it says he has completely kicked the habit and does not ask for a cig but apparently it shrunk his brain. Sad. In a little light heartedness I fell crappy that a two year old can quit smoking and I cant.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/02/smoking-baby-reportedly-has-quit/

 

[iPhysicist]

Third-world-nation parents just don't have enough in life to care about their kids. It's so much easier to just cast them off and hope they'll feed your ass when you're bed-ridden.

And the west has TV to raise their children, nice. Do not judge people without BEING them.