Replying to Mental & Physical Health

An important thread.

Out of all the sports I feel like skiing has the most smoking and drinking being flaunted. Not always a bad thing to have a drink or the occasional blunt, but how do you find a balance?

Also, the sport is very taxing physically and career-ending accidents happen all the time. A skiing accident can affect life outside of skiing, sometimes for life. How do you keep your head straight after blowing yourself up and being laid up in the hospital?

...Advice to young up and comers?