Video seen online of mum teaching toddler son how to smoke..photos

Outraged parents have expressed their shock after a video showing a mum teaching her two-year-old how to smoke was posted online. In the shocking clip, the tot stands unsteadily in the foot well of a moving car without a seat belt - and with a cigarette in his mouth.

As his mother and an unidentified man blast loud music and laugh at his efforts, the smiling youngster tries to share the joke.

Then a man's hand comes forward to take the lighter and light it up, although he refrains from doing so.

But after a few seconds, he pulls a face and takes the cigarette out of his mouth, clearly unhappy with the situation. The appalling footage has provoked an angry reaction from social media users.