Thanks for the feedback. I respectfully disagree with some of your points which might be a sign that I (of course) am not an enlightened person. 1) How do you know that Alan Watts "absolutely" had "real spiritual insight"? What does this sentence mean really? 2) I believe yes you need to be perfect to be enlightened. That's why it is almost impossible to be enlightened. Let's not underestimate the difficulty of the task at hand. If you are addicted (that's what it is, an addiction) to tobacco and alcohol (or any other stuff for that matter) then it means the world still owns your body and mind. Was Buddha addicted to anything? He starved himself to death early on but then quit that addiction as well, didn't he? 3) It's not a matter of dying early or late. It's a matter of becoming free of the samsara while living, becoming free of addictions, something as simple as alcohol and tobacco and sex and drugs. If I can't even control cigarettes, how am I going to control my mind?