2006-10-23 01:43:43 · 12 answers · asked by riku r 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
smoking is bad for everyone,but singers are hit bad because you use your voice box in a lot different way than talking.
2006-10-23 01:47:22 · answer #1 · answered by Tired Old Man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Smoking is very bad for vocalists. First it affects your voice by literally burning your vocal chords. Because they are continually being hurt and cannot heal, you can wind up with vocal nodules and that's curtains for your career. Second your voice is powered by your lungs, and if your lungs don't work your voice doesn't work. We all know what smoking can do to your lungs so just quit now if you want any hope of a long career. Third smoking can affect your sinuses which are the cavities that your voice resonates in and gives it a good quality. If you are plugged up with colds, sinus infections and the like that can affect your voice as well.
Just stop smoking. You'll be better for it.
2006-10-26 17:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by melodymarch03 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes smoking is very harzardous to "singers". While in the short run it doesn't make much difference - over time it will drastically effect not only the singers voice but also their lungs.
Ever hear of Mario Lanzo? Fantastic singer as well as actor years ago who smoked so much he had to give up singing completely - then he developed lung cancer which killed him..
Research now shows that one out of every four smokers will get lung cancer.
Unless you have a death wish I would not advise anyone to start smoking - then to do so at their own risk.
I quit smoking after 42 years and am very glad I did!
2006-10-23 02:00:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it's bad for a vocalist. I'm surprised you even have to ask this question. The longer you smoke the more hoarse your voice will become. That is if you don't die of cancer first.
2006-10-23 05:30:27 · answer #4 · answered by jackie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smoking is extremely bad for vocalist. It can cause throat cancer and/or larynx cancer resulting in the removal of one or both vocal chords and/or the larynx (voice box).
2006-10-23 10:48:30 · answer #5 · answered by CJBig 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard someone who has been smoking 20 years? And it will be a little difficult to sing when you are hooked up to an oxygen tank
2006-10-23 01:53:04 · answer #6 · answered by willow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes absolutely. It may not sound like it now but in the long term you are going to damage those vocal chords and you could blow it altogether because it can make you more susceptible to laryngitis etc.
2006-10-23 01:53:56 · answer #7 · answered by Fiona P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Barbara Streisand is a chain smoker, so was frank Sinatra, and dean Martin.
2006-10-23 01:51:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how you look at it, lots of singers got their famous rough voice "thanks" to smoking and alcohol. Regular smoking definitely changes your voice, and is unhealthy, so you better don't...
2006-10-23 01:51:57 · answer #9 · answered by lindavankerkhof 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look smoking is bad full stop
2006-10-23 01:44:53 · answer #10 · answered by CHARLOTTE D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋