James Bond an 'impotent alcoholic': medical study

A study in the British Medical Journal has poured scorn on the lifestyle of Britain's most famous spy, James Bond.

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Actor Roger Moore in character as James Bond. (Getty)

British spy James Bond is well known for his signature drink - a martini, "shaken, not stirred".

But was he a drinks connoisseur or a chronic alcoholic?

A team of medical experts is calling on James Bond to slow his drinking.

They say he consumed so much alchohol that he should probably have died in his mid-fifties.

"He was drinking about 92 units of alcohol per week and that equates to five vodka martinis or one and a half bottles of wine every single day it is completely inconceivable that he would have the physical and mental capabilities to perform as is claimed to perform," study author Patrick Davies says.

They say Bond would be prone to alcohol-induced tremors.

The world of espionage has changed a great deal since Bond's heyday, but after reading each of Ian Fleming's Bond novels, the researchers didn't hold back.

"James Bond's level of alcohol intake puts him at high riskof multiple alcohol related diseases and an early death," the report says.

"The level of functioning as displayed is inconsistent with the physical, mental and indeed sexual functioning expected from someone drinking this much alcohol."

The researchers point out that around 4 per cent of worldwide deaths are related to alcohol.


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