The Southern Baptist Convention passed its first anti-tobacco resolution in 1933, urging ministers, teachers and parents to consider the probable ultimate effect of the growing and excessive use of tobacco by our boys and girls, with a view to arriving at some kind of cooperative measures by which at least some of our young people may hope to escape the experience of an habitual slavery to tobacco. A 1937 resolution went further, saying the prevalence of smoking among preachers, church leaders and denominational workers was not only detrimental to the health of those who participate, but is hurtful to the cause of Christ in that it weakens the message and lowers the influence of those who are charged with the preservation and spread of the Gospel. The 1964 convention applauded the Surgeon Generals Report, but also took the occasion to urge President Johnson to appoint a similar commission to study the hazards of beverage alcohol
People with this condition are at significantly higher risk of stroke
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An important educator and conductor who directed band programs in California area schools, Mancini was a former member of the bands of John Philip Sousa and Patrick Conway
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