A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 9, 2002 CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD More hypocritical drug enforcement Dear Sir: Regarding. your story “Drug sweep nabs stu- dents” (Terrace Standard, Dec. 12, 2001), the Drug Free Zone should not be enforced selectively. for some drugs and ignore two of the most addictive and destructive drugs out there - tobacco and alcohol, According to govern- ment statisties, B.C. recor- ded 5,500 tobacco related deaths, about the same for iNegal drugs and zero deaths from marijuana in the year 2000. Tobacco-related illness alone cost B.C. well over half of our $9 billion health care budget. If Skeena vice-principal Todd Hollett and Con- slable McKenna are truly concerned about our child- ten’s well being they’d de- vote more of their energies and resources tackling the teal drug dealers, the to- bacco and alcohol indu- stries advertising that tar- get our youth. Tobacco, probably the most addictive and deadly drug out there, is being used in plain view of our so-called educators, con- cerned citizens and police al every junior and senior high school. With all the deadly facts known about tobacco why are our children, who legally cannot buy tobacco until they are 19, allowed to possess and consume this deadly drug in front of out schools? To send: the. nine siu- dents involved:to.drug-and «i: |e SCI choice troubling. Dear Sir: As an emloyee. of the Skeena Cellulose sawmill in Terrace | am very con- cerned with the way the Liberal government is handling the tentative sale of SCI. There is far too much secrecy surrounding the negotiations and after sev- eral months none of us have seen anything in the way of a business plan. To the best of my knowledge nobody here in the northwest is‘ impressed by anything that Mercer International has proposed. The future well being of this area and the workers here wil! remain on very shaky ground if this deal goes through. After recently having the opportunity to read a copy of the NWBC Timber and Pulp Company’s offer to purchase SCI and com- paring that to what we know of Mercer’s proposal it would be insane to con- clude a deal with Mercer International. NWEC’s business plan appears to be a very sound one and given the fact that their management team has about ten years exper- ience with these opera- lions we realize that they know exactly what they are getting into. Those of us whose fu- tures depend on the right decision being made would like the minister in charge of the sale of SC] (o fet us know why he re- fuses to consider the pro- posal put forward by the NWEBC Timber and Pulp Company. 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