Champagne bottles should come with a health warning.
Flying champagne corks can cause eye injuries
Doctors argue that bottles should have screw caps as corks can shoot out at 50mph and cause possible blindness to anybody struck in the eye.
They have also advised revelers to take precautions such as pointing the bottle at a 45-degree angle away from the body.
Boffins from the University of Cambridge's Department of Ophthalmology acknowledge that the warning may seem overly cautious but explained how flying cork injuries pose a considerable danger to eye health.
Injuries can happen quicker than the blink of an eye - as it takes the cork just 0.05 seconds to travel from bottle to face.
Writing in the Christmas edition of the BMJ, the experts conclude: "The goal of this article is to ensure that you don't begin the New Year on the operating table of an eye surgeon.
"Let us toast to an excellent New Year, keep the bubbly in our glass, and the sparkle in our eyes."