Music star creates confusion with announcement that he's giving up weed

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Puffed out? Snoop Dogg made a stunning announcement on Thursday, Nov. 16, indicating he's giving up smoking marijuana — a habit with which he's long been associated.

Some fans feel that the announcement was hazy, though, and there's speculation that something else is at play here. Could this be nothing more than a publicity stunt?

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Snoop Dogg shocked his social media followers when he announced on Instagram, "After much consideration and conversation with my family, I've decided to give up smoke. Please respect my privacy at this time."

He added in the Instagram post's caption, "I'm giving up smoke."

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Snoop Dogg also gave up smoking marijuana back in 2002, but that hiatus proved to be short-lived.

He later said he could never give up smoking.

He did, however, kick his alcohol consumption to the curb. 

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Snoop Dogg's social media followers reacted to his big news with skepticism, speculating that it's a publicly stunt and that the rapper is gearing up to release a line of edibles. 

High Times, a media outlet dedicated to the marijuana industry, seemed to buy in to Snoop's new smoke-free lifestyle plans: "We appreciate everything you've done for the plant, and you'll always be welcome in the cannabis community whether you're blazing or not," the outlet shared on X.

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Earlier this year, Snoop Dogg said he had scaled back on his marijuana intake after he became a grandfather. 

"Being a grandfather has changed me in multiple ways," he told DailyMail.com. "The main way is being concerned with how I live, how I move, the kind of people I'm associated with, because I want to see my grandkids grow old. The only way I can do that is to take precautionary steps as far as how I move, who I hang out with, where I go out, my intake, what am I intaking? Am I doing extra-curricular or am I just doing what I'm supposed to be doing?"