When the younger cast told Hamm they "wanted to feel" the burn of real cigarettes, the series star joked, "Let me know how that goes."Mad Men was built on three things: Jon Hamm, excellent writing, and a mountain of fake cigarettes.

Jon Hamm recounted having to smoke so many fake cigarettes and drink onion water 'vodkas' on 'Mad Men': 'Oh, the breath was lovely!'

Reuniting for a panel at Austin’s ATX TV Festival over the weekend, Jon Hamm and John Slattery, who starred as Don Draper and Roger Sterling, looked back on the highs of the Emmy-winning show, as well as some of its downsides.