Gwyneth Paltrow: I miss smoking so much; I can’t wait to start again!

Gwyneth Paltrow has said she regrets having to give up smoking and is looking forward to the day when she can take it up again.

The otherwise obsessively healthy star was a heavy smoker even after her dad Bruce Paltrow died of complications due to throat cancer - a cancer largely attributed to the habit - but gave up once she got pregnant with her first child, daughter Apple, in 2003.

She told Elle magazine recently: “I miss it. The last cigarette I smoked was the day I found out I was pregnant with Apple. I had to sit down and smoke one final cigarette.

“It’s such a beautiful thing. I’m so p**sed off it gives you cancer.

“Cigarettes were my upper, they were my downer. I would think with them, write with them. I just love them so much.

“But then, once you have children, if you’ve witnessed a death like I did with my father, you just can’t.

“But I’ve decided that when I’m about 70 I’m going to start smoking again. Why not? I can’t wait!’”