About smoking, I never suspected that can actually be true, but I remember a Jet Li movie .. where he as the main character had to smoke a cigarette in one scene, which looked so artificial and unvoluntarily, where you could see he clearly did not wanted it, but was forced to. (and shame on him, as he does not seem to need to to this anymore)

And about product placement in general: it seems to be a bigger buisness, than I suspected:

https://blog.hollywoodbranded.com/how-much-does-product-plac...