Smoking?

My friend keeps telling me that smoking will make my voice worse, and prevent me from increasing my range, but i think shes wrong. Does anybody know about this? thanks

 

It will, I don't know the science behind it but it does. My family is full of smokers and all of their voices are total crap.

 

Hahaha, depends on what you sing. I find I can sing stuff like Muddy Waters pretty good after a gravity hit, but I might just be hearing things.

 

my friends mom has a really raspy voice form smoking so many cigarettes.

 

Yeah I think it does. Bob Dylan's singing voice is not as good as it used to be but I still love him!

 

it probly will effect your voice not now but years from now maybemy friends mom had to have an operation because she smoked so much it realy messed up her throat she couldnt talk for two weeks afer the operation and now her voice sounds like shit and it will the rest of her life and the sad thing is she still smoke, its not good for you anyway i would just quit

 

I love his voice, though.

 

Getting a laryngectomy might cause a *slight* alteration to your voice...

...but that happens after like...a few decades of smoking.

http://www.tobacco-facts.info/larynx_cancer.htm

^^ oh wow, I feel like a health teacher now.

 

it does! it does! it does! thats all i can say.

 

yep it will make your voice more raspy and cracked...

 

If you are talking about weed, it helps you sing longer holding makes your lungs stronger

 

Or you could die and then you wouldn't have any voice at all.

 

No wonder I can sing like janis joplin sometimes...

 

That's like asking if sitting on a snow drift will make your ass cold?

 

im talkin about maybe like smoking weed messing up the vocal range and stuff like that

 

the best classical singer i know is one of the main chain-smokers i know.
i do classical singing, and smoking hasn't killed my voice yet, though i'm only 16 so it could easily go wrong. however, my recreational music is blues so i'm not too worried

 

it is absolutely going to hurt your singing voice..smoking anything will do it...


stop smoking

 

And again, it depends on what you sing.

 

This is not true at all...

Frank Sinatra smoked 2 to 3 packs a day, for the sole purpose of getting the voice that he had. It made him become one of the best vocalists of all time.

He also died a few years ago, because of cancer. ... So I guess it's a double-edged sword... but I would imagine, that if you wanted to smoke to get a better voice, that you'd have to practice singing while smoking like mad..

 

I know... I read a bio on frank. He always used to smoke and drink while singing.