black cigarettes peaky blinders Fun fact 🎬 Cillian Murphy smoked an estimated 18,000 while playing Tommy Shelby in Blinders, but he doesn't smoke in real life. To handle the constant on screen smoking, the Everhype Peaky Blinders Cigarette Case

Peaky Blinders unmasked: Staggering amount actors smoke on set in BBC show exposed PEAKY BLINDERS actor Cillian Murphy has revealed the staggering amount of cigarettes he goes through while portraying fictional Birmingham gangster Thomas Shelby'

Anyone who's a fan of the hit series - starring Cillian Murphy (Thomas Shelby), Paul Anderson (Arthur Shelby) and Helen McCrory (Polly Gray) - will know the characters chain smoke throughout

Fans last saw the Peaky Blinders in season four finally defeating the Italian mobsters - the Changretta family

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Peaky Blinders: Cillian Murphy returns for series five Peaky Blinders fans have always wondered exactly how many cigarettes the Shelby family smoke in the BBC series, as the Birmingham gangsters are almost always seen with one hanging out of their mouths

To step into the shoes of someone who challenges me, not only as an actor but as a human, it kind of opened my eyes and opened my mind I suppose, and my heart to a different type of person. In terms of whether the characters journey will be one of redemption in the fifth season, Sam left things vague