Smoking Toddler Enters Rehab, Trying to Quit 4 Packs Per Day

Daily News @ RevolutionNews.US ~ (CBS NEWS) The chain-smoking Indonesian baby who gained instant worldwide fame via a viral video of him puffing away has gone into rehab – and given up cigarettes. But now, reports CBS News Correspondent Betty Nguyen, Aldi Suganda, 2, is heading home, and there’s concern he may give in to temptation and resume smoking once he gets there. The video of Aldi smoking sparked outrage. He was smoking up to 40 cigarettes a day. Smoking Baby Puffing Away Pictures Smoking Baby And in July, a CBS News team traveled to the remote fishing village of Musi Banyuasin, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in search of Aldi. Our crew found him, cigarette in hand. His mother, Diana, said she felt helpless in her efforts to breaking Aldi’s two-four pack-a-day habit. “I don’t know of what will happen in the future,” she said through an interpreter. ” … We surely hope he will quit. … But what can we do but accept it is as it is?” Given the intense interest in his story, “The Early Show” wanted to see how the child was doing, two months later. It turns out Aldi and Diana mother were taken to the capital, Jakarta, for intensive medical and psychological treatment, a trip paid for by the local government. Jakarta translates to “complete victory,” which is just what Diana was hoping for. “I brought him here to stop smoking,” she said. “I came to Jakarta for help.” The night before treatment began, Diana watched her child smoke what she hoped would be his last …
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