When Babies Smoke Cigarettes

I’ll tell you what: I’m prepared for pretty much any kind of recurring horror story that comes up in the news. My RSS reader is filled with babies mauled by foxes and developmentally disabled children who allow their supposed friends to tattoo terrible things on their bodies in hopes that it will somehow help them fit in. Then there’s large-scale starvation, rape, environmental destruction, unspeakable abuse of society’s weakest and most vulnerable, etc. This is what I see all day. Most of it I can drink away. But can I make a request? Can we not make “Asian toddler addicted to smoking” some kind of summer meme? (The little Indonesian boy who kickstarted this season’s trend is apparently down to a pack and a half a day, if you wanted some follow-up.) Really, I don’t ask for a lot. Can we not have this be a thing? Because it is ruining smoking for me. Thanks.