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LIAM Neeson is back on the cigarettes.

The 58-year-old star says his role as cigar-puffing Hannibal Smith in The A Teammovie remake caused the ”addicted” actor to begin smoking again after quitting 16 years ago.

“I stopped smoking 16 years ago so it was a real issue for this movie,” he said. “The props guys got me these amazing fake Cuban cigars but then I was given real ones. I said, ‘I can’t do this I’m an addict’.”

After just two days of filming, Liam was addicted again and has vowed to insist on “rubber cigars” in future to help him curb his cravings.

“By day two of filming I had discovered cigars and I was in trouble. If we do a sequel I think I will have to insist on rubber cigars!” he said.

Neeson — who stars alongside Bradley Cooper and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson in the film about a group of rogue military mercenaries who are on the run over a crime they didn’t commit — also admits he never liked the original TV series.

“I was never a fan of the series, to be honest,” he said. “I was in my 20s. Bradley Cooper and Rampage and those guys were 10 or 11 years of age and it was iconic for them.”

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