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Chinese toddler is world's youngest chain smoker.


Summary: Two-year-old Tong Liangliang has little interest in the pacifiers and bottles typically favored by others his age and instead opted for cigarettes, and is now up to a pack a day, earning the Chinese

Two-year-old Tong Liangliang has little interest in the pacifiers and bottles typically favored by others his age and instead opted for cigarettes, and is now up to a pack a day, earning the Chinese toddler the dubious record of the world's youngest chain smoker smoker A person who smokes tobacco, almost always understood to be cigarettes Ratio of ♂:♀ smokers Philippines64/19, China61/7, Saudi Arabia53/2, Russia50/12 . The toddler's father encouraged him to take up smoking when he was one-and-a-half years old, thinking it would alleviate the pain he suffered from a hernia hernia, protrusion of an internal organ or part of an organ through the wall of a body cavity. The hernia is enclosed by a sac formed by the lining of the cavity. It results from a weakness or rupture in the wall, usually where there is already a natural weakness.  until he was old enough to undergo surgery, the German newspaper Bild reported Tuesday.

The father did not take his son's smoking addiction seriously until Liang became a pack-a-day smoker. Now Liang resists all his father's attempts to take away his only pain killer.

But doctors say that smoking can aggravate hernias, because it induces frequent coughing that presses on abdominal and chest muscles and creates muscle tension.

But studies presented to the American Society of Anesthesiologists' have shown that both nicotine and chili (language) CHILI - D.L. Abt. A language for systems programming, based on ALGOL 60 with extensions for structures and type declarations.

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 peppers are good pain killers, especially after surgical operations. Most researchers, however, note that the risks of nicotine addiction Noun 1. nicotine addiction - an addiction to nicotine
drug addiction, white plague - an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
 seem to outweigh its potential benefits.

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In 2005, a 37-year-old Chinese man requested he be added to the Guinness Book of World Records after claiming he started smoking when he was three and was therefore the world's youngest smoker. Guinness rejected the request since it was seen as promoting an unhealthy habit.

China is home to 311 million smokers, ranking it first in terms of countries with the most smokers, followed by India with 229 million smokers.

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 studies conducted by the American Cancer Society American Cancer Society,
n.pr established in 1913, this national volunteer-based health organization is committed to the elimination of cancer through prevention and treatment and to diminishing cancer suffering through advocacy, scholarship, research,
 and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease lung disease Pulmonary disease Pulmonology Any condition causing or indicating impaired lung function Types of LD Obstructive lung disease–↓ in air flow caused by a narrowing or blockage of airways–eg, asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis; , around six million people die of smoking each year. This number is expected to reach eight million by 2030, with the sharpest rise occurring in developing countries.

(Translated from the Arabic by Sonia Farid)

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Publication:Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia)
Date:Jun 29, 2009
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