Famous smoking mathematicians

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I know Banach was an incessant smoker. I would like to know about the post 1950 famous smoking mathematicians?

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I don't know if G.H. Hardy smoked a "lot". But this is the first picture that shows up when you google him.

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And apparently Bertrand Russell is another on the list of Brits posing with a pipe.

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Thomas Wolff was a Marlboro man: See this.

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I recall an anecdote recorded in James Gleick's book, Chaos: Friends of Mitchell Feigenbaum theorised he got his vitamins from cigarettes, since all he consumed otherwise was red meat, red wine, and coffee...