Marshall Bang, a singer-songwriter and a member of Team BIBI, helps translate the musicians story behind her pseudonym
I was like theyre smoking cigarettes so much, why dont I make the cigarettes kind of like a character, Bernard said
Essentially it's just a fancy electrical switch in the ON position
"But all the same, it is hard," he laments, in Mes Hpitaux, "after a life of work, set off, I admit, with accidents in which I have had a large share, catastrophes perhaps vaguely premeditatedit is hard, I say, at forty-seven years of age, in full possession of all the reputation (of the success, to use the frightful current phrase) to which my highest ambitions could aspirehard, hard, hard indeed, worse than hard, to find myselfgood God!to find myself on the streets, and to have nowhere to lay my head and support an ageing body save the pillows and the menus of a public charity, even now uncertain, and which might at any moment be withdrawnGod forbid!without, apparently, the fault of any one, oh
These mechanisms are still being studied, but they help explain why smoking may speed up thinning in susceptible individuals
