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upang: A four-year child, Gio Naikofi, from Timor Tengah Utara regency in East Nusa Tenggara, has allegedly consumed two packs of cigarettes per day since he was one-year-old.

“He will cry if his request for cigarettes is turned down. Sometimes he even throws himself to the floor. After he gets the cigarettes, he stops crying,” Marsel Naikofi, Gio’s father, said on Friday.

According to Marsel, his son’s smoking habit cannot be stopped. “We’ve tried using various ways to stop his habit, but he is apparently addicted,” he said, while hoping that somebody would give him advice on how his son could stop the habit.

Marsel admitted that Gio had slightly reduced his cigarette consumption as his uncle had been angry upon seeing him smoking. “As a parent I don’t want my son to have such a bad habit, but I don’t know how to persuade him to stop it,” Marsel said.

“I myself stopped smoking with the hope that my son would follow suit,” he said.