Do you consider this technique “BAD”?

Question

Sometimes you need to skip execution of part of a method under certain non-critical error conditions. You can use exceptions for that, but exceptions generally are not

Answer 1

Split your code into smaller chunks of functional elements - so you could split the above into a function that returns instead of breaking.

I don't know if the above is bad practice but it's readability is a little off and may be confusing to others who might have to maintain the source.