James Bond may have quit smoking 14 years ago, but he remains at high risk from the puffing habits of his many sexual partners, researchers warned. Delving into the British spy's on-screen smoking history, a team of public health researchers sought to highlight the tobacco hazards faced by the fictional action hero -- and the real-life people he may have inspired.
Although he gave up the habit, 007 continued putting himself at risk by cavorting with smokers, the duo wrote in the journal Tobacco Control. This "would have meant high levels of secondhand smoke exposure for Bond, especially with post-coital smoking, even to the point where one partner used an ashtray positioned on his naked chest," they said.
The team observed that Bond smoked most in the 1960s -- in five out of six movies that decade -- and took his last puff in 2002 in the aptly titled Die Another Day. But his sex partners often smoked, most recently in the 2012 film Skyfall.
