Disturbing images of children puffing cigarettes

The colour images show the youngsters, aged between four and nine, in a selection of adult outfits as they perform the rituals of a smoker – forcing out smoke through the nose, lighting one cigarette with another or mouthing smoke rings.

Their clothes are old-fashioned – with touches of British missionaries, Victorian schoolmistresses and 1920s mobsters – showing the habit as archaic.

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