#12: Thank You for Not Smoking
How far would you go for your craft if you were an actor? For instance, what if a scene requires you to smoke a cigarette, but you prefer not to smoke for health or other reasons? For the sake of your career, would you force yourself to smoke and, therefore, damage your body?
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Luckily, there is another option. Prop cigarettes can be made that don’t have tobacco in them, giving you the look of a real cigarette without any of the health risks. William B. Davis, who played the big bad villain The Cigarette Smoking Man for a decade on the X Files, used these to create his character’s defining trademark without ever actually smoking.