 
The FOREST Guide to Smoking in London, the world's first travel guide
for smokers, has been acclaimed worldwide since it was first
published in November 1996 and been given more media coverage than any
other travel guide to Britain’s capital in the last few years. The
following are just a sample:
"The most politically incorrect book of the month, the Forest Guide to
Smoking in London, published yesterday, makes a bold stand not for what is
good for us but for what we know is bad for us." Alan Hamilton, The Times
"I grudgingly admire this book, in part because it has some sense of humour.
Leavey is a fund of knowledge...The book is more significant as a
challenge to two qualities vital to a balanced urban life: tolerance
and courtesy." Simon Jenkins, Evening Standard
"United and abandon your outcast status, trumpets James Leavey's Forest
Guide to Smoking in London...The guide introduces smokers to a like-minded
community of puffers both past and present...With gleeful complicity,
this guide helps those who light up to inhale - freely and unashamedly."
Nadya Labi, Time magazine
"Lovers of the weed who are headed for England should pack a copy of The
Forest Guide to Smoking on London...the 'world's first travel guide for
smokers,' it also offers insight on the city itself." Playboy magazine
"The revolutionary call to the new militatant smokers, the Das Kapital of
the smoke-and-be-damned philosophy, is London's first smoking guide..."
Eleanor Bailey, Independent on Sunday
"It is reassuring, in fact, to see how many places still tolerate
smokers...The best section is the one covering restaurants, which lists
the places which provide free matches - the smokers' equivalent of a
Michelin star...this guide also shows those of you who prefer their
lungfuls of pollution unadulterated by cigarette smoke where to avoid the
rest of us." Lizzie Fairrie, Arena magazine
"Business travellers will find particularly useful a section which sets
out exactly when they can light up at London's airports." Amon Cohen,
Financial Times
"There was a book launch party in the capital this week for a volume called
The FOREST Guide to Smoking in London...The celebration was a great
success. News of the event attracted media correspondents from Iceland,
Austria, Brazil and - not surprisingly - from Pravda newspaper in
Moscow...Smokers, in one sense, have become the heroes and heroines of our
age." Peter Tory, Daily Express
"This is a noble project designed to allay the paranoia of the smoker who
fears instant vilification when lighting up in public. It tells you where
to have a snout without some spiritual Californian reading the riot
act..." Peter Clark, ES magazine
"It (also) suggests smoking in front of the memorial bust of the late US
president, John F Kennedy, on Marylebone Road in north-west London. Quite
what this will do for Anglo-American relations is not made clear." Lloyds
List
"Smokers visiting the capital can now discover which hotels,
restaurants, cinemas and even health clubs will welcome them with open
arms." Daily Telegraph
"A small rearguard action in the smoking war..." The Bookseller
"A sort of baccy bible - and an entertaining one to boot...This is a bang
up to date 'what's on and where' volume in its own right..." Pete Bryen,
Herald Express (Torquay)
"...entertaining, amusing and informative...even for the non-smoker."
Tobacco Europe
"...tobacco lovers are hitting back with a guide to where to have a smoke
without strife..." The Herald (Glasgow)
"It even has a section on the best doorways to light up in - thus
accepting without protest the fact that many office workers are now driven
into the streets to smoke." Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian
"...essential reading for smokers in London or conversely it could also
be used by non-smokers as places not to go in the capital. Either way,
this publication serves as a testament to the change in public attitudes
to the habit in the last few decades." Jo Cole, The Western Morning News
"A late Christmas present for the unrepentant fumer in your life? Try
The FOREST Guide to Smoking in London...There's an introduction by Auberon
Waugh and an afterword by that greal role model and picture of health
Jeffrey Bernard." Venue magazine
"At last, a guide book with attitude!" Virgin FM
"...lets puffers in on those secret, fuggy corners yet to be banned by
Californian-style anti-tab militants..." The Independent
"...it demonstrates that most restaurants not only tolerate smoking, but
seem actively to promote it; about half give away free matches..."
Anthony Middleton, Time Out
"Where to find smoke without ire." Hackney Gazette
"...gives advice on where to find the most smoker-friendly pubs,
restaurants, movie houses and even health clubs in the capital."
International Herald Tribune
"...a handy book for those who are looking forward to having a break in
London but dread being prevented from smoking..." Jersey Evening Post
"If it is cold outside, we are assured the book itself provides much warmth
if ignited." Tobacco Trade Guide-Europe
"A must for the discerning smoker." Classic Cigar magazine
"The FOREST Guide to Smoking in London features Jan Olofsson's excellent
photographs." Amateur Photographer
"Packed full of historical anecdotes the guide offers THE places to smoke at
ease..." Traveller magazine
"...a savage indictment or welcome aid, according to the state of your
lungs. Right on! I see the shade of Che Guevara rising from his grave to
join the fight, wielding a fine Havana." Noises Off, The Sunday Times
"...succeeds in framing the public smoking debate in uniquely
diplomatic terms...Chapters on the etiquette of smoking in public,
Sherlock Holmes' London, and the best London doorways to light up in are
accompanied by historical anecdotes and an engaging underlying call for
tolerance and courtesy that transcend’s locale." Smokeshop, official
publication of the Retail Tobacco Dealers of America
“…leads the reader through the streets of one of the world's great cities,
stopping at smoker-friendly (and sometimes not so friendly) spots along the
way. The good news is that London has plenty of places to light up. It also
has an exuberant and longstanding smokers' culture, which Leavey celebrates
with humour and verve…But the real fun lies in the book's chronicle of
smoking culture, past and present. London has several smokers' clubs, and
Leavey lists them. Readers are told where to go for the largest selection of
snuff in England, where to have a good quality lighter repaired, where
serious smoking collectibles are bought and sold, which famous British actor
had a cigarette brand named after him, where the debris of clay pipes from
centuries past might be found, and the location of Sir Walter Raleigh's
statue…The Forest Guide to Smoking in London will enhance your trip -- and
make you a more interesting conversationalist when the subject of smoking
pops up. Leave room for it in your suitcase!” Anne MacDiarmid, FORCES
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