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Put down “Willie’s smoke-free bus” on the things you’d never thought you’d see come to pass that somehow have. The country legend told a San Antonio television station he’s given up on burning sensations.
“I don’t smoke anymore,” Nelson told
KSAT. “I have abused my lungs quite a bit in the past, so breathing is a little more difficult these days, and I have to be careful. I’ve mistreated myself since I was this big.
“I started out smoking cedar bark, and it went from that to cigarettes to whatever,” continued the 86-year-old singer. “And that almost killed me. … I take better care of myself today than I did then.”
From the sound of things, Nelson hadn’t completely given up smoking at the time of the April interview, but his wife, Annie, described him as mostly relying on vaping and edibles nowadays. Describing his routine, she said he would “take a couple of hits off the vape and then, an hour or two later, he might want a piece of chocolate. That keeps it going. So not a ton [of pot] . . . but he is
Willie Nelson.”