Cigarettes and Alcohol

I remember my mother once telling me sniffily that classical musicians didn't have rock'n'roll lifestyle issues with drugs etc. Aye, right, as I said then. OK, you don't get them pictured in the tabloids snorting cocaine off supermodels (though I do have a photograph from my 18th birthday celebration of the leader of a renowned British string quartet with two blonde teenage babes in his lap....). Still, the stresses of touring are similar, and as this story shows, its effects are similar too.