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Band of Hope

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Band of Hope
n
a society promoting lifelong abstention from alcohol among young people: founded in Britain in 1847


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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: "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.
 
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