23 Celebrities We Didn't Know Were Smokers (2024)

Jenna Ortega

Jenna Ortega was seen smoking in London in 2023, causing a stir in the tabloids as well as with fans, who were mostly unimpressed. This included her own mum, Natalie Ortega who is a nurse.

Her response at the time included sharing memes about smoking on her Instagram page, alongside health warnings. She also gave a touching insight into her reaction, ending the series of posts by saying: “A mother is always a mother. She never stops worrying about her children, even when they are all grown up and have children of their own.”

Emma Chamberlain

Emma Chamberlain revealed in an episode of her podcast, Anything Goes, that she has struggled with a nicotine addiction as a result of vaping for the past five years.

The internet celebrity got candid about the origins of her addiction, saying she turned to vaping at just 17 when she was struggling with loneliness after moving out of home to Los Angeles.

She also shared that she is on a journey to quitting the habit, after experiencing overwhelming health anxiety.

Sophie Turner

Anya Taylor-Joy

Dua Lipa

Bella Hadid

While Bella Hadid is careful not to smoke in public given her large teenage fanbase, she was also photographed lighting up in the Met Gala bathrooms in 2017.

Since then, she’s spoken about struggling to give up ‘Juuling’ (referring to the e-cigarette brand JUUL) as part of her 2019 New Year’s resolution. She even posted a video of herself engaging in the harmful habit to Instagram and joking “So far so good!”.

There’s no update on her smoking habits, however, since her battle and recovery from Lyme’s Disease.

Dakota Johnson

Jennifer Lawrence

Lawrence has been snapped smoking everything from cigarettes, to vapes to a joint, and has spoken openly about smoking marijuana on several occasions. “I smoked a joint with some rappers,” she told radio host Howard Stern in 2018. “Their shit is different. So I entered a different universe.”

Jennifer Lawrence has also talked about how she got high while on set for movie Don’t Look Up. As reported by Y! Entertainment in 2021, the actress said at a post-screening Q&A that it was “Because my character was getting high in the movie.”

Emily Blunt

Lady Gaga

Lana Del Rey

Zayn Malik

Ashley Olsen

Katy Perry

Perry has been snapped smoking on multiple occasions, and reportedly used the habit to manage her stress while she was planning her wedding to Russell Brand back in 2010. However, she has not been seen doing so since their breakup in 2012.

While in Australia in 2020, Perry also revealed that she had stopped smoking while pregnant with daughter Daisy. “When you stop drinking and smoking and start creating a baby your body is like ‘well thanks for treating me nice for one day’,” she said while on the radio with Fifi, Fev and Byron.

Miley Cyrus

The singer dabbles in smoking joints, and struggled with quitting tobacco even tweeting: “2 months no cigs #proudofmyself” in 2014.

But since having vocal surgery, she has leaned more towards being sober. In fact, Miley Cyrus says she avoids smoking her mother’s weed because she finds it too strong, according to an article in ET.

“Usually, I fake it to be cool for my mom,” she quipped in an episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman in 2024.

Keira Knightley

Sienna Miller

Matt Damon

Despite his well-behaved dad vibes, Damon still dabbles in an occasional cigarette, even though he officially quit years ago after seeing a hypnotist.

“He taught me that the reason you finally quit is because you look at what cigarettes do to you,” Damon told Parade magazine of the hypnotism. “Once you realise the consequences, it’s no longer an option for you to smoke. I think that applies to any addiction.”

Ben Affleck

Naomi Campbell

Mila Kunis

Gwyneth Paltrow

Michael Fassbender

Alicia Vikander

Katherine Heigl

Cameron Diaz

Kate Winslet

Back in 2008, the British actress told Vanity Fair she enjoyed a cigarette with her coffee in the morning, but tried not to smoke around her kids. “I don’t smoke around my kids. Like that makes it any better that I smoke at all, because obviously it doesn’t. But I don’t smoke in the house.” I mean, I had a cigarette this morning, which is because I hadn’t been. Coffee and a cigarette: bingo! I’m not sure if I want you to print that,” she told Vanity Fair in 2008.”

But Kate Winslet reportedly gave up smoking a few years later, telling The Irish Independent that doing so had “transformed” her complexion.

Do actors really smoke on-screen?

Most of the time, actors will smoke herbal cigarettes if they’re playing a character that’s required to smoke. Also known as ‘fake’ or ‘prop’ cigarettes, these realistic looking smokes are made of a blend of herbs to help reduce the health risks of smoking.

Some actors also say they’re not very nice to smoke, including Kate Winslet.

“Herbal cigarettes actually don’t smell verynice. They sort of smell a little bit like burning poo, to be honest. So it’s a rather odd smell,” she said in a 2024 interview with Virgin Radio in the UK while discussing her film Lee.

Other famous actors who don’t smoke in their own lives have also spoken about using herbal cigarettes on-screen, including Margot Robbie and Cillian Murphy. Murphy actually said after Oppenheimer that he didn’t want to play a smoker for his next role, telling The Guardian: “I’ve smoked so many fake cigarettes for Peaky [Blinders] and this. My next character willnotbe a smoker.”