James Bond Has Kicked Butts, But His Co-Stars Haven't

James Bond Has Kicked Butts, However His Co-Stars Have not

MONDAY, Jan. 16, 2017 (HealthDay Information) -- Being a undercover agent is dangerous sufficient with out including cigarette smoking to the combination. So it is excellent news that James Bond appears to have kicked the health-harming behavior about 15 years in the past, a brand new examine says.

Nonetheless, since 1962, there's solely been one James Bond film that hasn't proven individuals smoking, in response to the brand new analysis.

And regardless that Bond now not smoked after 2002, he is nonetheless been uncovered to secondhand smoke, together with from his romantic companions, the examine authors identified.

The investigators checked for smoking in 24 Bond films made between 1962 and 2015.

The spy's on-screen smoking peaked within the 1960s, when 007 puffed on cigarettes in 83 p.c of the Bond films made throughout that decade. He had his final smoke in "Die One other Day" in 2002, the examine findings confirmed.

When Bond was a smoker, he had his first smoke a mean of 20 minutes after the beginning of a movie, in response to the analysis crew led by Nick Wilson from the College of Otago's division of public well being in Wellington, New Zealand.

Of the 24 movies, solely 2006's "On line casino Royale" did not present any smoking. In the latest film in 2015 ("Spectre"), neither Bond nor any of his main associates smoked. However different characters did, leading to an estimated 261 million "tobacco impressions" for 10- to 29-year-olds in the USA alone, the examine authors stated.

Whereas there have been some "favorable downward smoking-related developments on this film collection, the persisting smoking content material stays problematic from a public well being perspective, particularly given the recognition of the collection," the researchers wrote.

Findings from the examine have been printed Jan. 16 within the journal Tobacco Management.

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SOURCE: Tobacco Management, information launch, Jan. 16, 2017