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Vintage Japanese Cigarette/Alcohol Ads

  • October 4, 2010 12:01 am

The good folks over at Pink Tentacle have collected a bunch of interesting Japanese cigarette and alcohol ads from 1894-1954. Check out a sampling of them below (you can see them all here). Happy Monday, everyone!

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3 Year Old Chinese Kid Smokes and Drinks

  • June 15, 2010 2:39 am

That Indonesian kid has got nothing on this Chinese girl. 3 year old Ya Wen, from Huizhou, China, regularly smokes and drinks beer as a form of therapy after she survived a horrific traffic accident. After being struck by a speeding van and waking up from a week-old coma, her parents and doctors say the young girl has been acting strangely, as if she is an adult. Her mother soon discovered her sneaking her father’s cigarettes and smoking in the bathroom. A local store clerk caught her stealing packs, thinking that she was stealing for her father.  Read more...

Smoking Toddler Update: The Kid Cuts Back

  • June 8, 2010 5:11 pm

As you may know, future gangsta, yet still diaper wearing Ardi Rizal shocked the world when a video of the corpulent child, puffing away on one of his 40 cigarettes-a-day habit, was released on the Internet. People around the world were shocked to see these images, and angered at his parents’ inability to discipline him or even for that matter, introducing him to this very adult habit. Ardi’s case has highlighted the tobacco industry’s aggressive marketing to women and children in developing countries like Indonesia, where regulations are weak and many people do not know that smoking is dangerous. Cigarette consumption in the Southeast Asian archipelago of some 240 million people soared 47% in the 1990s, according to the World Health Organization.  Read more...

Smoking 2-year old

  • May 27, 2010 1:38 am

It will only be a matter of seconds before everyone in the world has seen this video, but here – behold a 2-year-old smoking and loving a cigarette.  man o man.


Ardi Rizal, Indonesian toddler, 40 cigs a day.

If You’re Invited to a Funeral, Go.

  • March 16, 2010 9:28 am

My aunt Dawn passed away last Wednesday – suddenly, unexpectedly, but painlessly – while undergoing a heart procedure. The memorial was held in south Los Angeles on Saturday. When I first heard the news, I waffled for a moment about attending, since I didn’t know Aunt Dawn all that well. She was my mom’s brother’s second wife, who I saw maybe twice a year growing up at family events. But I changed my mind, made the drive down. So glad I did. In that hour long service, I learned more about my aunt and the rest of my family than I have in the past 20 years.  Read more...