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by Oliver Miller, posted Nov 11th 2010 2:45AM
Actor Russell Crowe is a tough guy. He fights, he drinks -- and he smokes cigarettes. On 'Late Show' (weeknights, 11:35PM ET on CBS), Crowe said that he started smoking at age ten. Whoa. The 46-year-old estimates he's smoked 18,000 cigarettes a year ever since then. 18,000 times 36 years is -- well ... we won't do the math for you, but it's a lot. Now, Russell's trying to quit. He told David Letterman he kicked the habit five months ago, for the sake of his son. Dave was intrigued. "How did you stop?" he said, as the audience began to applaud. The actor held up his finger in warning. "You've clapped way too early," he told the crowd. Uh-oh.
It turns out he had sort of quit. Sadly, after a few glasses of wine the night before, Russell fell off the wagon and smoked. That's unfortunate -- but maybe we shouldn't be too hard on him. He is trying to quit, after all. And Crowe's cigarette addiction practically dates back to the stone age.
Russell began smoking as a schoolboy, before "disposable lighters" existed. So that he wouldn't be revealed as a smoker by having an entire box of matches in his pocket, he used to smuggle a few matches and a piece of flint into school, hiding them in his pants. Naturally, this plan went badly. As Crowe told Letterman, the mix of flint, matches, and polyester pant-lining was just too combustible and he quickly set his pants on fire, scorching away his newly arrived pubic hair. Ouch!
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