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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dctjr80, post: 628075, member: 15915&quot;]<b>Pre Civil War Medal</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This add was put out by the American Anti- Tobacco Society in the year 1855.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>George Trask, a Massachusetts minister who founded the American Anti-Tobacco Society in 1850, visited schools around the country and urged young people to take the Band of Hope pledge: &quot;I hereby solemnly promise to abstain from the use of all Intoxicating Liquors as a beverage; I also promise to abstain from the use of Tobacco in all forms, and all Profane Language.&quot; In the 1890s Lucy Page Gaston adopted a similar strategy, leading boys and girls in the Clean Life Pledge: &quot;I hereby pledge myself with the help of God to abstain from all intoxicating liquors as a beverage and from the use of tobacco in any form.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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