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London Cigar Scene: London’s Newest and Shiniest Cigar Store

Photography by Nic Wing Londonist was lucky enough to be the first customer to sample a cigar in the wonderful surroundings of No 1 St James’s Street when it opened its doors to the public on the day the election was called. This beautifully designed …

Photography by Chris Osburn

The Burgeoning London Cigar Scene

Photography by Chris Osburn Londonist has noticed that despite the continued legislation against smoking, the London cigar scene is currently going from strength to strength, spelling a new golden age for resident and visiting cigar smokers. London has a fascinating cigar history and has always …

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Smokers Face Fag Litter Fine

Another unfair blow to an already persecuted group? Or a victory for common decency and cleaner streets? Smokers in the City who flick their cigarette butts onto the floor could be fined £80 for the privilege of using the streets as their personal ashtray. A …

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Mile End Kids’ Park No Smoking Area

Image by lindseymclarkewith permission Smokers have been exiled from the great indoors of London town – pubs, offices, restaurants – and are banned from lighting up at locations that are technically outdoors such as train stations and some shop doorways… From next week, Monday 20 …

Marshall, importer of segars, Finsbury Park, N4

Urban Sightseeing: #10 Smoke gets in your eyes

Today marks a whole two years since the smoking ban was introduced here. Despite the initial protestations and subversive acts of defiance it has become normal to ‘pop outside for a fag’. And there are some benefits related to smoking; smokers get more exercise than …

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Hubble Bubble, No Toil, No Trouble

Now let’s be clear about this from the outset: setting fire to anything and then inhaling it is not a good idea. Doesn’t matter what it is. But shishe smoking is more of a hobby than a habit (well, you try smoking 20 of those …

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Marlboro Moaner

Probably the last thing you need, having lit up a Silk Cut at the end of another eight hours of cubicle-bound wage slavery, is some rubicund, preachy do-gooder accosting you on the street and sneering at your God-given right to smoke like a Victorian chimneystack. …

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Face Scans For Teen Drinkers

Pity London’s poor crafty underagers. A further hurdle was today placed in the way of their illegally buying booze and fags as supermarket chain Budgens unveiled a trial of hi-tech face-recognition cameras in one of its London stores – technology that will weed out teenage …

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St Trinians Premiere

The legendary girls from St Trinians had their premiere last night in Leicester Square. St Trinian’s is the 2007 film of the 1950s film series is getting certain bits of the press excited, with a cast that features Rupert Everett in drag, Russell Brand twatting …

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20 Years After The King’s Cross Fire

Today marks 20 years since a dropped match started a blaze at King’s Cross tube station that killed 31 people. Smoking on the sub-surface portions of the Underground had been banned two years before the 1987 fire, but at the time smokers were still allowed …

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Londonist Live: White Mischief at Scala

You can get packed into a club playing bad techno any weekend, but it’s not often that you get to party like it’s 1859. Saturday’s White Mischief, themed “From The Earth To The Moon”, was an evening envisioning the future as the Victorians imagined it …