Speaker’s message hit home

To the editor,

Your article “speaker gives PJMS students stark lesson about smoking,” page A9, reminded me about the importance of real life experience. Students are not being given the proper education they need to decide if they can handle certain drugs. Yes, cigarettes are drugs and so is alcohol. As a senior in high school, I have close friends, students, who have subjected themselves to the problems caused by cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. This has been caused by a lack of education on the dangers of these products. Students need real people who have lived a life with drugs to explain to them the dangers that may appear in their lives including lung cancer, kidney failure, etc. or the message will never come across their developing, vulnerable minds.

Drew Larson

Wasilla