Nelson temporarily stopped smoking cigarettes each time his lungs became congested, and resumed when the congestion ended.[142] He smoked between two and three packages per day. After suffering of pneumonia a repeated number of times, he decided he had to quit either marijuana or tobacco. Nelson decided to quit tobacco.[143] In 2008 he started to smoke marijuana with a carbon-free system to avoid the effects of smoke in his lungs.
That’s a lot of weed.