Boy they do start young, don’t they?
Hart Hagerty, who runs the blog Shanghai Style Life, was celebrating Easter in Shanghai’s Fuxing Park yesterday when she saw this. More pictures are posted over at her website, where she writes:
My jaw dropped when his pajama-clad mother handed the tot a cigarette… then lit it for him … then smiled on as he smoked it… then laughed as he rolled on the ground when he felt sick. As I snapped photos, my friends begged the parents to intervene, but they just enjoyed the show.
We don’t want to bog down the photo — which really stands alone, doesn’t it? — with facts, but there are 350 million smokers in China — that’s more than a quarter of the population — with 1.2 million deaths per year due to tobacco-related diseases.
Kid: quit while you can.
Smoking Chinese Baby (Shanghai Style File)
Dude, Hart is a girl.
Oops! Fixed.
It’s Oskar from “The Tin Drum”
My father let me take a puff when I was young. It made me so sick I’ve never smoked one since. Then again my father knew how to parent, I doubt this person was doing the same thing.
‘Candy? Fxck that shit. Give me a smoke mommy…’
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2013/04/shanghais-smoking-baby-insists-on-cigarettes-not-candy-thanks/
Fathers smoke with their sons all the time in China. Pop your head into any restaurant and you see it everywhere. This is not news. The ‘news’ is when someone stands up in the Chinese media and says, “BTW, Mr. Zhang, are you aware that you’re actually killing your son?”
He’s spit out his 王老吉, and tell you to get out of his face and mind your own business.
Get rid of the smoking, and you get rid of the spitting. Let’s go guys, Gotta live up to those 北京精神 promo videos we’ve been pumping out..