Merchandising Suggestion

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• Hardyboy Posts: 5,882Chief of Staff

  December 2006

  I was an asthmatic child (and I still have some slight respiratory problems) and I had to use an inhaler. Somehow, I don't think that having Le Chiffre glare at me every time I took a breath would have made my trauma any easier!

  Vox clamantis in deserto
• SiCo EnglandPosts: 1,371M

  December 2006

  A nice idea but I would rather they released a shinny chrome holder as he uses in the film.
  
  I also don't really see how them using it as marketting will help, you either need one or you don't!
  
  Maybe there is an idea for inhaler skins...!

  Simon
• Donald Grant U.S.A.Posts: 2,241Quartermasters

  December 2006 edited December 2006

  SiCo wrote:

  A nice idea but I would rather they released a shinny chrome holder as he uses in the film.
  
  My wife as an asthmatic owns several of these Albuterol inhalers. Ventolin is one of the branded forms of Albuterol. A little black paint for the cap, some mirror chrome paint, vacuum metalizing, or silver leaf (the cheapest) and you've got it.
  
  DG

  So, what sharp little eyes you've got...wait till you get to my teeth.
  
  "People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
• Dell Deaton Posts: 159MI6 Agent

  December 2006

  pirasite wrote:

  Dear GlaxoSmithKline Pharma Inc. ... Your Marketing is either asleep or has no humour at all ... Well, I'd suggest you immediately offer this special edition to all 007-fans that suffer from asthma to enjoy life more....

  
  Before any marketing, maybe if someone on the inside had actually provided for the proper use of an inhaler in the first place, that would have been the biggest plus from my perspective.
• PoorMansJB USAPosts: 1,198MI6 Agent

  December 2006

  I'm not quite sure what we're to make of Le Chiffre in the film but if you know the books, then he's not asthmatic ... he's a benzedrine addict; the inhaler isn't medicinal.
  
  Probably NOT a connection anyone in pharmaceuticals would care to share I don't think.
• Dell Deaton Posts: 159MI6 Agent

  December 2006

  PoorMansJB wrote:

  I'm not quite sure what we're to make of Le Chiffre in the film but if you know the books, then he's not asthmatic ... he's a benzedrine addict; the inhaler isn't medicinal.
  
  Probably NOT a connection anyone in pharmaceuticals would care to share I don't think.

  
  In today's society, one man's pejorative is another man's pursuit!
  
  
• pirasite Posts: 2MI6 Agent

  December 2006 edited December 2006

  PoorMansJB wrote:

  I'm not quite sure what we're to make of Le Chiffre in the film but if you know the books, then he's not asthmatic ... he's a benzedrine addict; the inhaler isn't medicinal.
  
  Probably NOT a connection anyone in pharmaceuticals would care to share I don't think.

  
  Well, look what I have found in the german Version of Wikipedia - looks like it doesn't matter if it's Ventolin or Benzedrin, comes all from the same company
  

  Wikipedia wrote:

  1932 bringen Smith, Kline & French in den USA Amphetamin in Form des Sulfatsalzes als Benzedrine®-Inhalator als Asthmamittel auf den Markt, auch in Deutschland wird das Mittel verkauft, dort als Benzedrin®.

  
  (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamin)
  
  Interesting: Both Benzedine and Ventolin are against asthma, both come from Smith Kline (company name has certainly changed a couple of times) so it just might be that at the time CR was written, nobody knew about the amphetamine-aspect we know today, but Le Chiffres's character was just being thought as an asthmatic. Looks like I've been lucky to hit the right spot in that matter, don't you think? And yes, know I know why GlaxoSmithKline would never ever want anyone to remember...