No matter where you stand on the issue of smoking everyone can agree that children shouldn’t smoke, and seeing a little kid puffing away on a cigarette just looks wrong.
There are so many kids smoking cigarettes in Indonesia these days that it's becoming a national epidemic, and at the same time oddly accepted by people who just look the other way as kids smoke like chimneys.
Photographer Michelle Siu shot a series of portraits entitled “Marlboro Boys” that focuses on the huge underage smoking problem in Indonesia, a problem recently made public when a two-year-old named Aldi Rizal kicked a two pack a day habit.
"Marlboro Boys" is a cautionary tale, a beautiful collection of striking images, and an effective way to expose the temptation Indonesian children are facing thanks to marketing aimed at teens and the highly addictive nature of cigarettes.
-Via Juxtapoz