This is stupidity at its finest.
A youth organization in Pili, Camarines Sur thought it was perfectly OK to have some underage boys participate in a cigarette-smoking contest. The idiotic activity was caught on video, which has since become viral.
The video shows six underage boys lined up for the crazy contest. Some adults are then seen putting cigarettes into the kids’ mouths.
The GMA News report didn’t name the youth organization, but said that they had gotten in touch with the group. Those in charge of the group reportedly claimed that they only held the cigarette smoking contest for fun and that they saw nothing wrong with it. They did not consider it child abuse at all.
However, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Dinly Soliman said that they are taking steps to investigate who was involved in setting up the horrible contest and to ensure that kids are not made objects of amusement by adults lacking in good judgement.
