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 Why Peaky Blinders Matriarch Polly

Politician and leader Tommy Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy) in particular seems to inhale smoke more than anyone else, but now actress Helen McCrory, who plays the formidable Aunt Polly in the series, has revealed the truth, and it will shock many fans of the period favourite

My next character wont be a smoker

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

While it wasnt in enough time to save the beloved John Shelby (Finn Cole) from dying from a shower of bullets, Tommy and Arthur Shelby (Paul Anderson) managed to exact their revenge on head of the family Luca (Adrien Brody), and stop anyone else from getting killed in the process