Hooray for The Smoking Baby! Aldi Suganda attracted international attention earlier this year when cameras in the quiet Indonesian fishing village of Musi Bbanyuasin caught the two-year-old gleefully indulging his chain-smoking addiction. Well, we are happy to annouce that Aldi is no longer campaigning to be the pint-sized poster child for lung cancer. The boy who smoked about 40 cigarettes a day kicked the habit after receiving intensive specialist care, a child welfare official said.

Six months after his father gave him his first cigarette, the overweight boy was smoking two packs a day and threw violent tantrums if his addiction was not satisfied. Desperate, Aldi’s parents turned to the media for help. And that’s just what they got. Accompanied by his mother, the boy left his village on Sumatra island in July to undergo treatment in the nation’s capital.

“He has quit smoking and the most important thing is he doesn’t ask for cigarettes anymore,” National Commission for Child Protection Secretary-General Arist Merdeka Sirait said Thursday.