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Indonesian Two-Year-Old Made Famous by Viral Video Kicks Habit -- in Rehab -- but Is Now Returning Home
Jump to full article: CBS, 2010-09-02
Author: - The Early Show - CBS News
Intro: The chain-smoking Indonesian toddler 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. . . .
In the morning, despite his mother's optimism, Aldi wasn't happy when he arrived at the hospital and was denied a cigarette.
What followed would be hard for any parent to bear, as Aldi wailed and smashed his head on the floor.
Over the next two days, he underwent a battery of tests, including a chest X-ray and ultrasound on his heart and lungs. Results showed a thickening on the left wall of his heart.
"The youngest smokers found," says Aris Merdeka Sirait, CEO of the National Committee of Child Protection, "were 5 to 9 years-old. This year, we found that there are baby smokers, who start from a year old. He was also speaking through an interpreter.
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