For years James Bond and his chain-smoking, womanising ways have been accused of being, well, a bit dated.
But now our favourite spy has been given his own update to be, in the author’s own words, less offensive and patronising.
The revamp comes in new 007 book Trigger Mortis, which was released yesterday, with author Anthony Horowitz revealing the changes during an interview with radio station RTE.
He said: ‘He does smoke cigarettes, he smokes many many cigarettes. But then what I do is I nudge him with a little reference to a newspaper article he happens to glance at which just reminds him that these things will give him cancer.