Forget therapy. This three-year-old turned to booze and nicotine to recover from a horrific road traffic accident.<br /><br />  <table style="width: 96px; height: 172px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="96" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/jun/ya-wen.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><strong>Crash dive:</strong> Ya Wen smokes her dad's cigarettes and she even stole them from a store</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Chinese toddler Ya Wen started downing pints of beer and smoking up to a pack a day after she was struck by a speeding van and spent five days in a coma.<br /><br />"She likes drinking. Three glasses of beer is no problem to her," her mother Gao Wen said.<br /><br /><strong>Acting like an adult</strong><br />Gao Wen said her daughter's personality changed dramatically and she started acting like an adult shortly after leaving the hospital.<br /><br />First she was busted hiding in the toilet smoking her dad's cigarettes, then the girl turned to stealing them from a store -- before the owner let her have them on credit.<br /><br />"The first time I found her smoking was in the toilet," her mother said.<br /><br />The store owner said he assumed the child was buying the cigarettes for dad.<br /><br />The family lives in a shelter in Huizhou, China, andu00a0 sell garbage for cash. Wen's father recently gave up the smokes to set a good example for his child but she still cries for them.<br /><br />  <table class="ae_noborder" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" width="400" border="0">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td bgcolor="#ef4130"><strong><font color="#ffffff">2-yr old smoker</font></strong></td></tr>  <tr>  <td bgcolor="#e1e1e1"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A chain-smoking toddler in Indonesia threw tantrums if he did not have 40 cigarettes a day. He has managed to curb his addiction, by cutting down to just 15 a day.<br /><br />Two-year-old Ardi Rizal took up the habit when he was 18 months old. "He's totally addicted," Ardi's 26-year-old mother said. <br /><br />"If he doesn't get cigarettes, he batters his head against the wall." </font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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