By: Vickie J. Rubinson
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.
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 until he was old enought 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 affragate 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 peppers are good pain killers, especially after surgical operations.
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.
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.
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 until he was old enought 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 affragate 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 peppers are good pain killers, especially after surgical operations.
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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