Does Ben Affleck smoke?: Yes.Does Ben Affleck drink Alcohol?: Yes.Bens surname Affleck is of Scottish origin. Affleck has Scottish, English, Irish, German, and Swiss ancestry.During Bens childhood, his Father Timothy worked variously as an auto mechanic, a carpenter, a bookie, an electrician, a bartender and a janitor at Harvard University. While Affleck has described his father as a very smart guy, his chronic alcoholism often made Afflecks childhood difficult and his parents divorced when he was twelve.At age eight, Affleck became friends with ten yeas old Matt Damon, who lived two blocks away.Affleck had high SAT scores, he was an unfocused high school student with poor attendance. He took admission in the University of Virginia but instead followed a girlfriend to the University of Vermont, where he took Spanish classes.For the first time he came into sight in movies in 1981 at the age of seven in a local independent film called Dark Side of the Street directed by a family friend.His huge success as a child actor was as the star of the PBS childrens series The Voyage of the Mimi (1984) and The Second Voyage of the Mimi (1988), produced for sixth-grade science classes.Affleck gained popularity when he and his childhood friend Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997).Armageddon set Affleck as a viable leading man for Hollywood studio blockbusters in 1998.