Smoking Theme in Thunderball
perdogg
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Has anyone noticed that there is a lot talk in Thunderball about smoking? Not just talk about Bond or anyone character smoking, but actual discussion regarding Smoking, not smoking, giving up smoking, controlling one smoking, being able to smoke in front of the boss, not being able to smoke in a meeting, changing what one smokes, talking about brands of smoking, smelling smoke free, being sexually attracted to the character on the smoking package.
Is there is an underlying message in it all?
Is there is an underlying message in it all?
"And if I told you that I'm from the Ministry of Defence?" James Bond - The Property of a Lady
Comments
Doctors on quitting smoking, so put some of it in his novel.
From page 301 of Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories by John Griswold
“Shrublands was based on Fleming’s observations made in 1956 while staying at the Enton Hall Natural Health Resort…located in Witley, Surrey, England…Enton Hall grew as a health resort and became renowned as a naturopathic and osteopathic clinic. They used fasting, detoxifying diets, and regimes to aid elimination of accumulated toxins (enemas, colonic lavage, sitz baths, salt glows, hot blanket baths), and enhancement of body function and movement through massage, osteopathy and chiropractic.”