Jillian Dickens
Northern News Services

Iqaluit (Nov 28/05) - Nunavut delegates from the Ministers Youth Action Team on Tobacco met up in Iqaluit last week to make a point.

Symbolizing the 130 tobacco related deaths that occur each day in Canada, the youth spray painted an equal number of black angels on the white snow around the city.

The action team was quick to point out that, although the death toll is high, it doesn't include Nunavut, where seven out of 10 people smoke.

Kelly Coubert of Iqaluit, Kelly Karpik of Kimmirut, Sarah Jancke of Cambridge Bay and Sam Tille of Iqaluit were found outside the legislature on Nov. 15 using biodegradable spray paint to illustrate how smoking turns the pure, healthy body black and diseased.

"You're going to see these angels all over the place," said the group.