06 Tobacco Dock photographs beautifully and is one of London's most distinctive event spaces
Quotes Every time you light up a cigarette, you are saying that your life isnt worth living
Brandt also attempts to trace the history of the cigarette to our identity as a culture, but here, as in so many places, he trips over a welter of nouns and compound phrases: "Resisting the blandishments of the companies and the addictiveness of nicotine is one cultural test of our discipline, independence, and individualism." Sentences like this made the book a real slog to get through
it first appeared with an attribution to Twain in an issue of the Saturday Evening Post in 1948 but had appeared in a 1903 book with a different attribution
This would not be a publicity ploy (such as in the Norman Lear film Cold Turkey, in which a cigarette manufacturer, aiming to emulate dynamite inventor Alfred Nobels Peace Prize, offers $25 million to the first community in the nation that entirely stops smoking for 30 days), and it is not so far-fetched