The Easy Way to Start Smoking: A Step-by-Step Guide to Smoking Twenty Cigarettes a Day?and Loads More in the Evening

Cockerill, George, Owen, David

ISBN 10: 1841957445 / ISBN 13: 9781841957449

Published by Canongate U.S., 2006

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Title: The Easy Way to Start Smoking: A ...

Publisher: Canongate U.S.

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

Aimed directly at everyone who is sick of self-help books and fancy diets, The Easy Way to Start Smoking is a refreshing and caustically funny read. With Thurberian wit and the peculiar satire of The Simpsons, George Cockerill and David Owen urge their readers to start smoking, encourage them when they feel like giving up, and promise great joy at the end of the three-pack-a-day road. They teach postures for smoking and eighteen different ways to offer a cigarette to a fellow smoker. For those amateur smokers who keep forgetting to light up, they instill discipline and responsibility through an elaborate system of jolting alarms. The Easy Way to Start Smoking will charm anyone who has ever wondered if smoking will make them cooler (it will) or provide more opportunities to dip out of work for some sunshine (certainly) or what it would be like to be ruled by the desire to stick a cigarette in their mouth every ten minutes.

About the Author:

George Cockerill (30) studied Drama and English at Manchester university and then worked for a number of years at The Stage Newspaper, establishing and editing their network of websites. George works in London in new media. He founded and co-wrote the local newspaper spoof website, The Peel Bell which ran from 1998 to 2001. As a writer and musician, George composes music for BBC Radio 4 and writes and performs for the live comedy circuit in London and the Edinburgh Festival (2003 and 2004). David Owen (31) is the founder of www.idea-a-day.com, the author of The Big Idea Book (Wiley 2003) and the co-creator of Flipside TV. He studied Drama at Manchester University, before working as a journalist, an editor (of the now defunct Ads International) and then music publishing executive, in which capacity he was responsible for bringing a young Justin Hawkins to London (he is also 'nominally' The Darkness's official biographer).