I think Nunavutmiut will only start to see the effects of smoking as an important issue when all of us view the smoking as a deadly habit which kills. The entire Nunavut population has to think about being healthy. I encourage children not to smoke, I encourage eating healthy foods such as country foods, caribou, fish, seal meat, maktaaq, instead of junk food. I also encourage governments to ban smoking in all public places. I promote healthy life style, I promote clean air.
New Year is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts.
To many people, this has to mean quitting smoking. Yes, for some people giving up the nasty, dirty, addictive, smelly habit will be a January project. My fellow Canadians from Nunavut, please remember that cancer does not choose its victims. It has killed five members of my own family. And each one of them only took about two to six months to die.