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Stone-age tribe discovered in Papua
A tribe of hunter gatherers living in trees in the remote forests of Indonesia's Papua region has been discovered for the first time by the country's census. After receiving reports from missionaries, census officials travelled by boat from the nearest villages, then walked for two weeks to find the tribe, but still only reached the fringes of their territory.

The nomadic tribe, called Koroway, numbers about 3,000 people speaking their own language and living off animals and plants in the forest. "Their houses are in trees, their life is stone age," said Suntono, head of Indonesia's statistics agency in the Papua region. He said the tribe had built ladders to huts in tall trees. There are over 2,500 tribes in Papua.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2010/06/24/pf-14509781.html

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At just the tender age of two, Ardi Rizal's health has been so ruined by his habit of smoking 40 cigarettes a day that he now struggles to move by himself. The four-stone toddler's condition is set to rapidly deteriorate. Ardi, who is rarely seen without a cigarette, insists on the same brand, which costs his parents £3.78 a day.

Local officials offered to buy the family a new car if the boy quits, but Ardi's parents feel unable to stop him because he throws massive tantrums if they do not indulge him. "He is totally addicted. If he does not get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall," Ardi's mother wept.

Ardi's youth is the extreme of a disturbing trend. Data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25% of Indonesian children aged three to 15 have tried cigarettes, with 3.2% of those active smokers. The percentage of five to nine year olds lighting up increased from 0.4% in 2001 to 2.8% in 2004, the agency reported.

Child advocates are speaking out about the health damage to children from second-hand smoke and the pressure to smoke. One-third of Indonesians smoke tobacco. Seto Mulyadi, chairman of Indonesia's child protection commission, blames the increase on aggressive advertising and parents who are smokers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1281538/Smoking-year-old-Ardi-Rizal-40-cigarettes-day.html?printingPage=true

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