SAN ANTONIO, TX (KSAT/CNN) — Beset with health issues related to his many years of smoking, country music icon Willie Nelson says he’s quit. Country singer Willie Nelson says there’s nothing better than stepping out onto the stage, "it’s an energy exchange. They give me a lot of good positive energy and I hope I’m giving positive energy. And for an hour they get away from everything they don’t like." Still performing at 86, he says it keeps him in shape. "singing out there for an hour is a good workout. Your lungs are the biggest muscle you got. So when you’re out there working, you are working out," says Nelson. Years of smoking marijuana, he admits, has taken its toll on his lungs. "I have abused my lungs quite a bit in the past. So breathing is a little more difficult these days that 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 or whatever. And that almost killed me", added Nelson. It didn’t. So he made a decision. Nelson says "I don’t smoke anymore. I take better care of myself today than I did then. |
Willie Nelson says he doesn’t smoke anymore
