‘If Nicotine has a literary progenitor I would say that it is In Search of Lost Time […] an extraordinary act of literary finesse […] [with] tinkling little notes of comedy […] [a] dark, lovely, funny book.’ — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker ‘[W]hen Nicotine stays dry, earthy and combustible, like a Virginia tobacco blend, it has a lot ... Read moreto say and says it well.’ — Dwight Garner, New York Times ‘A satisfying wisp of an essay about tobacco, addiction, first cigarettes, last cigarettes, breathing, kissing, hypnosis, literature, memory, and marking time […] Nicotine is a smoke ring, blown perfectly in a single puff, or – better? – a wafting trail of vapor. Will Self contributes a foreword, a rapid monologue punctuated with vigorous little twists, as though he were grinding out a stub with yellow-stained fingers.’ — Christine Smallwood, Harper’s Show Less