# Cigars of Bond. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 23, 2003, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409 "2003-01-23T08:53:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the\_duke\_69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@the\_duke\_69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_duke_69)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/1 "2003-01-23T08:53:07Z")
What kind of cigars does Bond, James bond, smoke? What about other famous characters from other movies? ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/2 "2003-01-23T10:44:50Z")
I seem to remember that he was more of a cigarette man (in the books, at least) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/3 "2003-01-23T11:01:20Z")
I belive he smoked black Russian Sobranie cigarettes (hand rolled, of course). ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/4 "2003-01-23T11:04:32Z")
I’m wrong: > [@](#): > > One of James Bond’s greatest pleasures is cigarettes and he usually smokes sixty per day of a special Balkan and Turkish mixture with three gold bands on the filter. The cigarettes are specially made for him by Morland’s and carried in a wide, thin cigarette case of black gunmetal with room for fifty. Bond also carries a battered black oxidized Ronson lighter. [http://007.catalunya.co.uk/pleasures/smoking.htm](http://007.catalunya.co.uk/pleasures/smoking.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/5 "2003-01-23T11:22:07Z")
**jjimm** , now THAT is an interesting website. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![the\_duke\_69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@the\_duke\_69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_duke_69)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/6 "2003-01-23T11:36:02Z")
In “die another day” he lights up a cigar when he meets Hali barries character. Also is there a recreater of these Morland’s? ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/7 "2003-01-23T13:08:25Z")
If I smoked three packs of cigarettes a day, I doubt that I’d be in the physical condition needed to pull off some of the stunts Bond did. ---
**Author:** ![Elethiomel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Elethiomel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elethiomel)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/8 "2003-01-23T13:35:20Z")
That’s what you have stuntmen for. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/9 "2003-01-23T13:46:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plnnr \* > \*\*If I smoked three packs of cigarettes a day, I doubt that I’d be in the physical condition needed to pull off some of the stunts Bond did. \*\* Having energetic sex with all those women would probably provide the counter-effect needed. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/10 "2003-01-23T15:19:45Z")
The best answer to the OP that I could find is “Cuban.” From a column at [Cigar Aficionado Online](http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/Aficionado/WhatsNew/Archives/20021125.wkwrap.wna): > [@](#): > > But _Die Another Day_ has a scene in Cuba. Cuba and Bond equal British spy smoking cigars. As for the brand of cigar, it isn’t mentioned by Cigar Aficionado, perhaps because (and this is a guess), Bond’s preferred brand is never clear to begin with. From the same source: > [@](#): > > According to the books written by Ian Fleming, on which the films are based, James Bond is regularly described lighting up a number of handmade smokes. We all know that in the books, Bond smokes specially-made cigarettes, but I’m assuming that given the source (Cigar Aficionado), “handmade smokes” in the above quoted paragraph refers to cigars. So the best I can do to answer the OP is “Cuban cigars.” Sorry I cannot cite a brand name though. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/11 "2003-01-23T15:24:36Z")
Given the falling rate of cigarette smoking in the past 20 years – what was the last Bond movie in which James lit up a cancer stick? (I’m talking cigarette, not cigar). ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/12 "2003-01-23T15:33:23Z")
One Bond [actor](http://us.imdb.com/Bio?Moore,%20Roger) definitely preferred cigars. > [@](#): > > Moore’s contract for the 007 films provided him with an unlimited supply of Montecristo cigars during filming. The bill for this typically ran to thousands of pounds. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigars-of-bond/150409/13 "2003-01-23T15:45:28Z")
**Skammer** , from the same source at Cigar Aficionado that I quoted above: > [@](#): > > This is the first time in 13 years that our hero Bond has been seen smoking on film. The last time was in 1989’s _License to Kill_, starring Timothy Dalton as Bond.