Are the Olsen Twins Chain-Smoking Away Their Youth? Inside Their Cigarette Addiction

They've been known to take their cigarettes into nightclubs.

In one account of a reporter's trip to the Viper Room, it was noted that, "in a booth to my left, the Olsen twins, Ashley and Mary-Kate, openly flouted LA's non-smoking laws." They were also seated next to Christian Slater, which just sounds like a night right there.

By the way, don't think the Olsens will give you an interview without blowing smoke in your face.

Um, not literally. Well, maybe not literally. In another 2007 interview with New York Mag about their then-burgeoning fashion career, Ashley arrives and within seconds of sitting down, lights up a Parliament Light.

By 2005, the Olsens were such notorious smokers that magazines could identify their chosen brand.

A New York Times piece on celebrity smokers noted that "this month alone [Mary Kate] has appeared in at least three celebrity magazines fishing for a cigarette or holding a Marlboro pack in one hand and a cigarette in another while shopping in Los Angeles." There's also a 2006 piece by The Times where Ashley tries to obscure one of her favorite flavors. "I notice a packet of Philip Morris in her bag," it's observed. "Does she smoke? 'Um. Not really.'" lol.

In 2005, Mary-Kate famously got into hot water for smoking a cigarette at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala.

No joke, two years after the New York City smoking ban was instated, Mary-Kate was said to have been smoking in the girls' room. A witness told New York Daily News, "Mary-Kate and Ashley get up in the middle of dinner and walk in, and Mary-Kate is saying she wants a cigarette. She then proceeds to chain smoke in the bathroom of the Metropolitan Museum!"

Iconic.

There's even hearsay that the Olsen twins would light up in their Dualstar offices.

A hot tip from TMZ alleged that the twins only came into the company headquarters about once a month, but instead of doing work they would "hole themselves up in an office and chain smoke cigarettes for hours at a time." Which isn't totally verified but, mmm, it doesn't sound as farfetched by any means.

Mary-Kate has substituted cigarettes for food while out with friends.

This sounds like a dark nod to her eating disorder days, but it's not necessarily that. However, in 2007, MK grabbed dinner with Nicole Richie at the Chateau Marmont (definitely a peak 2007 moment) and reportedly, "the starlet smoked some cigarettes – but skipped the food."

Mary-Kate was once almost kicked out of a Fashion Week shindig for smoking.

Busted! While partying at the Marquee in 2010, the New York Daily News reported that "the pint-size actress was asked not once but twice by security to put out her cigarette." She's a rebel, that Mary-Kate.

And finally, let us never forget how smoking played a part in Mary-Kate and Olivier Sarkozy's wedding.

The centerpieces at MK's intimate affair? Page Six famously reported that during the reception there was "bowls and bowls filled with cigarettes, and everyone smoked the whole night."

Cell phones, however, were not allowed.