Review: Wildwood by Roger Deakin Review: Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski Review: Holy Warriors: A Journey Into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism by Edna Fernandes Review: Instruction to Deliver by Michael Barber It's three in the morning, I'm in my study, and I'm going to address, yet again, the smoking issue. Let's cut all the crap about the cigarette as movie icon - how it dangled from Humphrey Bogart's lips, stuck out of the side of John Wayne's mouth, the magic moment when Bette Davis in Now, Voyager ..
. and so on. Also forget the bit about how most of your favourite writers - George Orwell, Italo Svevo, Robert Musil, TS Eliot, Jane Austen - were all heavy smokers, and concentrate on the strictly practical and personal issue: why it is very, very important to you, personally and practically, to give up smoking.
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