If you watched "Oppenheimer" this summer and found yourself wondering if Cillian Murphy really puffed on all those cigarettes while playing theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that they were probably herbal cigarettes. The bad news is this isn't the first time Murphy has played a heavy smoker, and "Peaky Blinders" crew members estimate that the show's fake cigarette tally is a five-digit number by now.

Back in 2019, Murphy spoke to Birmingham Live about his character Tommy Shelby's prolific smoking habit, revealing that he once asked the prop department how many fake cigs the cast runs through per season. "I asked the prop guys to count how many we use during a series and it's 3,000," he told the outlet. With six seasons of the show now wrapped, assuming they kept a steady pace, that brings the total cigarette tally...