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Founding fathers film drove Giamatti back to cigarettes  

Paul Giamatti became so stressed on the set of new TV movie John Adams, he took up smoking again - eight years after he quit.

The actor, who plays United States founding father Adams in the two part historical epic, blames co-star Tom Wilkinson for tempting him to pick up cigarettes again in between takes.

He says, "I'd had enough. It was a tough job. John Hancock was on the phone to his agent... and Ben Franklin (Wilkinson) was having a Marlboro Light.

"So I said, `Give a founding father a cigarette. This revolution is killing me.'

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