So, it was the winter of 1973 and I was still wearing a back brace from an accident I had suffered that summer. We were sitting at Pickwick, a local coffee shop in Bellaire, Texas. Bill Barvin, Rick Morris, Glenn Smith and I were drinking what used to be called coffee and listening to the same old tunes on the juke box.
It was a time of challenges. One of the standards was the "Pickwick Challenge". It was as follows: smoke a whole pack of cigarettes in one sitting at Pickwick, and drink