ironically art himself had a constantly loosing struggle with cigerettes and so announced quitting ..took up a pipe ..couldnt hack..went back to cigs..
in fact one of the most despised images i still have of that time is art in front of open meeting ..laying down his bullshit to the parental new marks that were attending.. a smug lil egotistical asshole wearing a yachtsman cap with pipestem gripped between his teeth..
all the "talk the talk or else" captees backing up his schtick for the art will save your kids/the world show... sometimes i thought the whole thing existed so art could hear "we love you ,art" in mass ..jeeez how i hated all that..forced to be someone other than myself for mths in order to hopefully, someday ,make it out the other end and go about my life.. was a bizarre circumstance to say the least