Milford's SADD gets grant to study tobacco

A high school organization just received a $2,500 grant to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco.

Health Resources in Action, a Boston-based non-profit company, awarded Students Against Destructive Decisions with the grant - one of 15 school chapters selected from across the state.

Milford School District Publicist Jocelyne Fauerbach said club co-president and senior Dylan Shea wrote the grant, and that money will go toward raising awareness about cigars, cigarillos and other tobacco products. Cigarillos, according to the student group, are packaged and marketed to look like candy cigarettes, but are just as dangerous.

Fauerbach said SADD students have surveyed more then 100 people on the issue during “on the street” interviews, and will attend an anti-smoking rally at the State House in March. They will also present the data they collected to the Milford School Committee and the Milford Board of Health.