Does Boris Johnson smoke?: Yes (But according to some reports, he has quit smoking) Boris Johnson while smoking.Does Boris Johnson drink alcohol?: Yes Boris Johnson while drinking beer.He was born at Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. When he was born, his father, Stanley was studying Economics at Columbia University.However, he lived there until the age of 5. His mother got a job there in the World Bank. In 1969, his family moved to England where Johnson learned fox-hunting. Childhood photo of Boris Johnson, his siblings and mother.Johnsons maternal grandfather, James Fawcett, was a lawyer and was a member of the European Commission for Human Rights from 1962 to 1984. He also served as its President from 1972 to 1981.Johnson is of German, French, Jewish, and Turkish descent. His paternal great-grandfather, Ali Kemal, was a famous Circassian-Turkish journalist. He was a secular Muslim from Turkey. His maternal great-grandfather was a Lithuanian Jew and Orthodox Jewish rabbi (a teacher of Torah).In childhood, Johnson was very quiet and studious. At that time, he also suffered deafness and underwent several operations to insert grommets into his ears.When his father got a job in the European Commission, his family shifted to Uccle, Belgium. In Belgium, he attended his school and got fluent in French. During this time, he developed his interest in Rugby. Boris Johnson as a child with his father, Stanley Johnson.In 1980, his parents got divorced and Johnson settled with his mother in Notting Hill, West London.He abandoned his mothers Catholicism and became an Anglican. He joined the Church of England. Once he stated that he was not a serious practising Christian.