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What brand of cigarettes Bond would use if he was to smoke, nowadays?
ClarkDevlin
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Now, as you see, Fleming's Bond was a heavy smoker, and his brand of cigarettes was Morland. But the company went extinct about 50 years ago as far as I know, meaning there are no Morland cigarettes to put in use any longer. I wonder, what kind of brand Bond would have adopted if he was to smoke, these days? Any suggestions?
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"'Course, I used to get me own fags made for me back I was a spy. Did I ever tell you about me saving the country and knocking off proper fit birds all the time? Probably haven't. Official fuckin' Secrets. I was a bleedin' hero I was mate."
"gis a Special Brew while you're at it. that's a man's drink for you."
I rather like the idea of Bond as a senior citizen having dispensed with the snobbery and pretention of his working years; disillusionment, gambling and a failure to secure a decent pension (likely because he went AWOL after a job instead of retiring gracefully) putting him in penury. All that's left is the outsider thug he started out as - only he's lost his physical prowess so he becomes an angry anti-social vagabond, with only his wits intact to keep him from going 'full tramp'.
Oh, and Timothy Dalton's choice of smoke was Silk Cut - at least at the time when Licence To Kill came out. So maybe that would be the better brand to saddle Bond with in the absence of his preferred supply.
Yes, such tobacconists still exist, though not in large numbers one suspects. I know that Timothy Dalton smoked Benson and Hedges Gold cigarettes while filming The Living Daylights - there's a video tape out there somewhere of him riding about on a motorbike on that film. This scene was later cut I believe.
No idea, as I don't smoke. I've sold many a pack of them. I think they're fairly strong though.
They even advertised for them:
custom cigarettes
Looking at your picture and the fact that your Dunhill are all white are you in the USA ?.
At the moment? No, I'm not on US soil. Only sent on educational practice and training as an experimental teacher somewhere in a not well-known Eastern European country.
saved me a couple of times at school, when an occasional over zealous
teached would search us, anthing that felt like a pack of cigarettes would
have to be taken out of your pocket to be seen.
Happily my case, was always missed. ;) several of the other guys used
to joke it was my "Junior smokers kit"
Pretty wise decision, although I think Bond should smoke just like his literary counterpart.
I love Fleming but recognise that the modern version should not be smoking. And if they ever had the chance of 007 smoking it would have been before his return to active duty as 007 after his ressurection in SP. Then in his retraining they could have told him of with the filthy habit.