Oh, I don't think so, Ebbie. It's a sure bet that Uri only rarely either smoked or drank and then only because of his long-standing Yankee connections. You see, he was brought "into town" to finish his schooling to the 8th grade and because of his intelligence and, well, scholarship was offered by the leading citizens a full scholarship to study as far and as widely as he wished.

His family was living on the farm outside town and while they knew of the offer they put no pressure on him to be "churched." After a long, long summer of decision making (and his fictionalized account of it is called "The Long Summer") he elected to stay with "the church" instead of "going Yankee." After the 8th grade he returned to the family farm, respected by both the Amish and the Yankee communities for his honest decision.

I knew him for a dozen years and knew people who had known him for decades (including his CO work in WW2), both Amish and Yankee. No one ever had anything but praise for him. In fact, I went back there some years after Uri had died and was shopping in an "Amish store" run by his children. Unaware of the store's owners, I bought a copy of his autobiography and mentioned that I had known him. "Sarah! Here's a man who knew Dad!" and the questions came thick and fast.