Joe Eszterhas — Hungarian Writer born on November 23, 1944,

József A. "Joe" Eszterhas is a Hungarian-American writer, offspring of the aristocratic House of Esterházy. He has worked on 16 films that have grossed approximately one billion dollars. He has also written several non-fiction books, including an autobiography entitled Hollywood Animal... (wikipedia)

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.
Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help.