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[jaycee65]

This should make you feel better.

Toddler who survived van crash now addicted to cigarettes and beer

A three-year-old has mysteriously picked up an addiction to smoking cigarettes and downing beers after surviving a road crash.

Ya Wen has been smoking up to a pack a day since the accident last year when she was hit by a speeding van.

Her parents say that her personality has changed since leaving hospital, where she recovered from five days in a coma and severe injuries.


Addicted: Three-year-old Ya Wen smokes a cigarette. She took up the vice after being hit by a van in Huizhou, China

Her mother Gao said she has started acting like an adult.

'She likes drinking,' she said. 'Three glasses of beer is no problem to her.'

Her mother, who collects rubbish to sell in Huizhou, China, said she found her daughter hiding in a toilet and smoking her father's cigarettes.

At first she just thieved those, but now gets them on credit from a local shop.

The store owner said Ya Wen often came over and took one or two packs away.

'We thought she was buying for her father,' he said.

Mrs Gao, who lives in a shelter, said her daughter has now been addicted to smoking for a year and has also changed her preference in clothes.

'She only likes boy's clothes. If we don't buy them for her, she cries in protest.'

Ya Wen's father has now stopped smoking and the family have moved to the other side of the city, but said she still cries for cigarettes whenever she sees them.

* A two-year-old who threw tantrums if he did not have 40 cigarettes a day has cut down to just 15.

Ardi Rizal, who weighs 4st, has been smoking since his father first gave him a cigarette when he was 18 months old.

Officials in Musi Banyuasin, Indonesia, have offered to buy the family a car if he quits.

He has cut down through 'therapy focused on playing'.


Ardi Rizal had his first cigarette at the age of 18 months. At one point the toddler, now four, was addicted to 40 cigarettes a day but has now cut down to 1



Read more: China van crash toddler Ya Wen now addicted to cigarettes and beer | Mail Online

[Warrior]

Very interesting but, very far from helpful - go back to trawling the net!

[Alan100]

It is good sign that smoking is banned in resturents and other public places.
Every one should coprate and try to avoid, it is bit difficult for the smokers but thy can.

[Bob Pallas]

I agree with the positive comments about the smoking ban. We, non smokers, are now more inclined to use many more eateries because of the cleaner fresher environment we can enjoy the food in. I can not begin to think what the Jamon Serrano must have tasted like when it was matured in Lambert & Butler smoke while hanging from the ceiling!! Yuk!!!

[Scorpio]

We should also avoid to sit with a smoker because he has lot of diseases with him and we could be effected easily.
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Do they actually have to be smoking at the time, or could we simply be effected sitting near them ??!!!

[J.Terry]

Smoking is not that harmful for your health. Unless you make it or adopt it as a habit.

[lindapalmara]

I don't have to justify smoking - it exists!
If governments were really concerned they'd ban the sale of tobacco, but then they'd have to raise taxes to replace the lost revenue. How many non-smokers would go for that?
Who said anything about taking things in excess - I'm talking about eating & drinking, and I've never heard of anyone killing someone with their car because they had one too many kingsize - though you probably have...........!!
All I started this thread for was to say that the present status quo, whereby we have freedom of choice to patronise either a smoking or non-smoking establishment seems to work OK. Why alter it by legislation? I was unprepared for an uprising of general anti-smoking bo**ocks.
Why do people think they have the God given right to ban other people's enjoyment, as I've said more than once before; If you don't like smoking stay away from where it's practised.
Surely it's not that difficult a concept to grasp!

What a santimonious pr...k. Why should I, whilst enjoying a drink in a pub, have to move to another establishment and then another because someone wants to stand next to me puffing like a factory chimney! Tell me why I should be inconvenienced because people want their "enjoyment"? Nothing I do in public affects other people's enjoyment of life so just go away into your little holes, fill your lungs with smoke and die a horrible death.

[Warrior]

What a santimonious pr...k. Why should I, whilst enjoying a drink in a pub, have to move to another establishment and then another because someone wants to stand next to me puffing like a factory chimney! Tell me why I should be inconvenienced because people want their "enjoyment"? Nothing I do in public affects other people's enjoyment of life so just go away into your little holes, fill your lungs with smoke and die a horrible death.

Oh lovely - yet another non-smoking Nazi...........!!!
We used to have smoking and non-smoking establishments but of course that wasn't enough for you lot - you don't like it so no-one can have it, it's hardly democratic.
And I can assure you my pr**k is no more sanctimonious than anyone else's!
Now be a good girl and just go away and take your typically foul non-smoking mouth with you.
I find it hard to believe that nothing you do ever upsets anybody.........!!!

[Emmanu]

It is said that if you don't smoke then you would be alone when you would be old,.
Because all your friends will die. Bad thing for you.

[mackkreinz]

Some of the country and location smoking in the public place is banes and people are not able to smoke in public place so automatically ratio of smoking is decreased.