Support A Smoke Free Nunavut! Ban Smoking in Multi-Unit Dwellings and Save Our Children!

Second Hand Smoke (SHS) contains more than 7000 chemicals, 250 of which are harmful and 69 are known to cause cancer. SHS is proven to cause death in non-smoking adults and children. SHS causes lung cancer, heart and lung diseases in non-smoking adults and children. Children are especially susceptible to exposure of SHS because they are less able to protect themselves.

There is no safe level of exposure to SHS, any amount is harmful. The only way to fully protect non-smoking adults and children is to make the entire building smoke free. This petition declares all residential complexes and condominiums, attached and semi-attached row houses be smoke free by law, to ensure the safety and health of our non-smokers and especially the children.

57% of Nunavummiut smoke, and 40% of our cancer related deaths are caused by lung cancer. Children may develop asthma, lung cancer, respiratory infections and diseases and even brain tumours from being exposed to smoke. Nunavut relies on multi-dwelling units to provide housing and no one should be forced to breathe cancer and death causing smoke because of another person's habit. Sign this petition and together lets stop SHS in our multi-unit dwellings and save our children from entirely preventable diseases. Currently we are the worse off district in Canada for health related issues, let's make our future brighter and healthier, support a Smoke Free Nunavut!

For more information contact Sharon Angnakak at shangnakak@gmail.com

Update #59 jaar geleden
Let's go petitioners! I am super impressed with the amount of positive feedback and support! AWESOME!! Check out the new poster picture added, borrowed with permission from the Department of Health - thank you! Also Thank you to Madeleine Redfern for volunteering to collect signatures!!!
Update #49 jaar geleden
247 signatures online, 98 on paper! This is amazing petitioners! Also Thank you to April Pigalak for coming on board to help this important cause! If anyone else is interested in collecting signatures to bring to the Nunavut Legislative Assembly with April and I, please email me! I will email you a petition spreadsheet and together we can make smoking inside apartment buildings, condos, row houses history! Shangnakak@gmail.com
Update #39 jaar geleden
Extra! Extra! We made the paper fellow petitioners! This is amazing. Still looking for volunteers from other communities! Contact me - Shangnakak@gmail.com
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674nunavut_woman_launches_petition_to_ban_smoking_inside/
Update #29 jaar geleden
AMAZING! 102 signatures online!!! I have been collecting signatures around town too! So far collected 84 around Iqaluit. I will be collecting more in the coming weeks. Please continue to pass this petition to your friends, colleagues, family, place of business, church, anywhere to get more signatures! Also I need people from other communities to assist in collecting signatures... contact me at shangnakak@gmail.com
Update #19 jaar geleden
We only have 31 signatures, we have a lot to go! Please pass this petition on and request your friends and family to sign it, it only takes a minute. I will also be gathering signatures at Northmart in Iqaluit tomorrow evening... please please pass this on! We need 1000 signature by August! Also I am looking for people to assist me in the Kivalliq and Kitikmeot...if you know anyone that can gather signatures there for this cause, that would be amazing! They can email me at Shangnakak@gmail.com
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