http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2010/06/09/14321471.htmlA three-year-old from China is the latest child to hit the world spotlight for smoking, but this little girl also easily downs three beers a day.
The mother of Ya Wen says her daughter's personality changed after she was hit by a speeding van last year. The little girl was in a coma for five days and suffered severe injuries, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reports.
The girl's mother, Gao, said when her daughter awoke, she started acting like an adult and she caught the child with her father's cigarettes in the washroom. At first the little girl stole them, but now she gets them on credit from a local store.
As for the beer, "three glasses of beer is no problem to her," the mother said. "She likes drinking."
The mother said her daughter also only wants to wear boys clothes, and if her parents buy her clothing for girls, she cries in protest, the newspaper said.
This story comes just a couple of weeks after the world was introduced to two-year-old Ardi Rizal from Indonesia, who has been smoking since he was 18 months.
His habit was caught on video and posted to YouTube. The video showed him happily blowing smoke rings and enjoying himself, puffing away.
Media reports said he smoked as many as 40 cigarettes a day.
The Daily Mail reported Rizal is now down to just 15 cigarettes a day and officials in Indonesia have offered to buy the family a car if he quits all together