Billy Bob Thornton’s Landman character, Tommy Norris, smokes 37 cigarettes across 20 episodes spanning the first two seasons of Landman.
The tally breaks down into 27 cigarettes in season 1 and 10 in season 2. Season 1’s episode 2 is the single heaviest outing: Norris lights six cigarettes in that one installment. Season 1’s episode 5 is the only episode in that season where he does not strike a match. Season 2 opens with Norris taking two cigarettes in episode 1; beyond that, the season total remains 10 cigarettes across its episodes.
The count is the clearest metric of how much on-screen cigarette use centers on one character. By comparison, secondary smoking in the series is sparse: Cooper smokes two cigarettes across the series, Andy Garcia’s Gallino registers one cigarette, and Manuel smokes one. The tally also notes other on-screen drinking and substance instances: Norris drinks 23 beers across both seasons — 15 of them in season 1 with four beers consumed in episode 4 — while Dale drinks 10 beers in season 1, Cooper drinks four in season 1, Cooper’s crew drinks three beers in episode 1 of season 1, and the retirement-home residents share three beers in the season 1 finale. Jimenez is shown smoking marijuana a couple of times during season 1.
Landman’s pedigree and schedule sit behind the timing of this tally. The Paramount+ series, co-created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, returned for a 10-episode second season in November 2025 and aired weekly until mid-January. The two-season cigarette count comes as the show prepares to resume production: Landman is scheduled to return to Fort Worth in late August for season 3 filming.
There is an important qualification in the numbers: the count excludes cigars. Andy Garcia’s character Gallino is shown with cigars during the season, and those visual beats were not tallied; only cigarettes were counted. That choice narrows the focus to a single tobacco form and makes the 37-cigarette total a conservative measure of on-screen tobacco impressions, since cigar use appears separately on camera.
For viewers tracking habits, the episode-level detail is uneven. Season 1 supplies specific episode notes — most notably the six-cigarette spike in episode 2 and the matchless episode 5 — while season 2 is summarized at a season total of 10 with only episode 1 explicitly listed as two cigarettes. The lack of a full episode-by-episode breakdown for season 2 is the immediate gap in the tally: the series’ second-season total is clear, but which episodes carry the remaining eight cigarettes is not itemized in the current count.
The practical next step is also concrete: production will return to Fort Worth in late August for season 3, which presents the next opportunity to observe how on-screen smoking habits evolve. Until more granular episode logs or a full scene-by-scene accounting for season 2 are released, the record stands at 37 cigarettes for Tommy Norris across 20 episodes, with season-level splits of 27 and 10 and only a partial episode-by-episode map for season 2.
