Businesses wishing to support anti-drug education should think twice before advertising in a booklet called the Community Drug Alert Program.

SMIT Consulting, an advertising and promotions company based in Edmonton, is soliciting business all across the province and locally by telephone.

The company has been a satisfactory member of the Better Business Bureau since 1994, but is producing the publication as a money making venture.

"Although it is legal, this is a for profit business. They are supplying a product, but there won't be enough booklets to make a dent in the drug problem," said Norma Block, community mobilizer for Building Safer Communities.

[continues 188 words]