I recently watched Star Trek: The Next Generation and in Season 1 Episode 11 he gets offered a cigarette and takes it, for me indicating that he would smoke. Even though he coughs after pulling once. is it just to fit in to the character of dixon hill or the actor or is it picard as a character?
In the blu ray audio comentary tracks for Star Trek Picard Season 3, Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner talk about taking smoke breaks on the set of TNG. They mention that Patrick Stewart joined them very infrequently.