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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I must have read all or nearly all of the Bond books when I was a teenager. As I recall, Thunderball was another standout. Bond was always one for living large, and it was catching up with him. (If I'm not mistaken, he was smoking 60 cigarettes a day at the time; not at all the kind of thing that tends to keep a suave secret agent in top fighting form, and that's not counting his daily consumption of alcohol!) So M sends him to a health spa to whip him back into shape, and the people at the spa, of course, try to kill him.
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I think it also says something about the times in which the book was written. back in the 1960's people still didn't know how bad smoking was for you. I imagine Mr. Fleming might well have been one of those who was dealing with the problem in some way or other (or that he knew someone who was) and he could have given 007 that problem as a way of illustrating that without saying it directly and arousing the ire of the Tobacco companies.