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AKARTA: A two-year-old boy from Musi Banyuasin, South Sumatra, has kicked his cigarette habit and went home to his family Thursday, after finishing a month-long nicotine rehabilitation program in Jakarta.

The National Commission for Child Protection transferred the boy, whose name was withheld, to a Musi Banyuasin regency government official who will return the boy to his parents.

“The boy has recovered from a tobacco addiction that threatened his life and his future,” commission chairman Arist Merdeka Sirait said.

The boy’s smoking habit briefly made him an international media star before the commission took him from his parents for rehabilitation in Jakarta. — JP