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• Parliament$21.10
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• Plugarul$8.60
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• Red & White$9.60
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• Temp$8.60
• Viceroy$9.60
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• Zimbru$8.10
• 4ever$8.10

Nunavut is home to the most inveterate smokers in Canada

According to a recent research, Nunavut territory accounts for the highest smoking rate across Canada. The research carried out by Canadian Statistics Department showed that 53 percent of all residents of Nunavut smoke each day, although the average price of a pack of cigarettes reaches $15 in some places. Public health experts calculated that regular chain smokers can spend more than $6,000 annually on cigarettes, a cost that could be doubled in households with more than one smoker. “They are cutting the expenses on food, to afford cigarettes,” admits Dr. Richard Bowen, a family doctor who works in the Nunavut capital of Iqaluit.

Nunavut ("our land" from Inuktitut, Nunavut official Language) is the newest and biggest Canadian territory. It became a separate territory in 1999, after official separation from the Northwest Territories and signing of the Nunavut Act although the current borders had been set back in 1993. Nunavut accounts for the smallest population and at the same time the largest area in Canada. The population makes up 31,556 (as of January, 2009), the major part of them are Inuit, who live in an area of the same size as the Western Europe. Inuit is a common denomination of a nation of indigenous peoples similar from cultural and historical point of view, living in the northern Canada, Greenland and Canadian part of Alaska.

According to statistics, Nunavut is home to a staggering smoking rate, the highest across Canada and more than double the average in the country (22 percent), and significantly higher than in neighboring territories like Yukon and Northwest Territories.

The smoking rates among the indigenous populations of Inuit are even more astonishing, with 85 percent of Inuit being regular smokers. In conformity with 2008 Survey of teenage Inuit, 64 percent of the surveyed of 15 years old and more admitted to smoke at least one cigarettes each day, while 8 percent characterized themselves as on-and-off smokers.

The huge smoking rate is a common problem for all indigenous nations throughout Canada. Therefore, the among the inevitable consequences of Inuit smoking habit, there is the highest rate of lung cancer across the North America, as almost a half of all preventable deaths were caused by lung cancer.

Another problem for this territory is the poor health of Nunavut infants who are the least healthy in Canada, and although the maternal smoking is not the only reason to blame (since the constantly low temperatures and inaccessibility of health care are also responsible), but since the majority of pregnant women don’t give up smoking, it affects health of newborns badly.

As statistics shows, Nunavut is home to the youngest mothers in Canada, with an average age of 24.7. Moreover, the rate of pregnancies among adolescents in eight times higher than the average in the country. Therefore, as the pregnancy is unexpected, young mothers don’t give up because they try to cope with the stress.

Nunavut officials have implemented strict antismoking laws including a comprehensive ban on smoking in all public places, prohibition of vending machines and tobacco displays and other measures, to reduce smoking rates; however the Nunavut population keeps puffing.

The territory already has a tough set of anti-smoking laws. In 2004, Nunavut’s Tobacco Control Act made the territory one of the first jurisdictions to ban smoking in public places, including bars. The law made it illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone under 19, banned cigarette vending machines, and eliminated most tobacco retail displays.