I would say that it depends who you ask, but it would probably be more accurate to say that it depends when you ask. Part of the statement is true, though: the cigarettes Sarah Jessica Parker smoked on screen on "Sex and the City" were fake.

"I smoke fake cigarettes in the show," Parker told "E! Online" back when the show was still on the air. "They're called Honey Rose, they have no nicotine, and they smell funny. I think they're made of lettuce or something."

In a 2004 interview on CNN's "Larry King Live," she copped to having smoked real cigarettes offscreen "in the early years" of her time on "Sex and the City," but that she quit when she had a baby. She picked them up again later, though, while the show was shooting on location in the famously cigarette-friendly city of Paris.

"I smoked when I was playing -- in the early years of Carrie. And, of course, when I had a baby I didn't, and didn't smoke for two years, until I went to Paris. You know, this is the great seduction of a city like Paris with great architecture and food and wine and, so ... it's not been the easiest thing."

She said in that interview that her husband, fellow film star Matthew Broderick, doesn't like the fact that she smokes. However, in an interview with "New York Magazine" four years later, Broderick said he, too, is an occasional smoker.

"I used to smoke cigarettes, and I still do, lately. I gave that up a long time ago, but every now and then I will fall off for a week." He said, however, that Parker is "worse than me on that."

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