A CHAIN-SMOKING two-and-a-half-year-old from Indonesia is so addicted to nicotine that he manages to puff his way through 40 cigs a DAY.
Rapi Ananda Pamungkas’ dirty habit started when he was just two months old after picking up used butts outside his mum's market stall in hill station resort of Sukabumi.
However, within days the two-and-a-half-year old was hooked and he began constantly pestering passing shoppers to give him cigarettes.
The adults initially found the youngster's demands endearing and plied him with fags while laughing as he lit up.
But Rapi - nicknamed Rap - soon started becoming aggressive and throwing tantrums when he couldn't get his beloved ''meroko'', the local term for cigarettes.
The toddler’s mum Maryati, 35, admitted that she now has to buy two packs of cigarettes every day for the boy to stop him from going ''beserk''.
She said: ''My child is used to smoking while drinking coffee and eating cake.
“He has been smoking every day for around two months. If I don't give him a cigarette, my child goes berserk.”
Maryati said Rapi began smoking after collecting cigarette butts scattered on the road which older lads lit for him.
After that, he began demanding them from his parents who run a food stall which also sells cigarettes, as well as hounding passersby for his daily fix.
In 2010, a two-year-old boy named Ardi Rizal achieved notoriety after it emerged he also would smoke two packets a day, with footage showing him happily smoking cigarettes:
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Similar footage has also emerged from China in recent years, with one video showing a three-year-old taking several deep drags on a cigarette as if addicted.
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