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There is a characteristic sound that a voice has, when it has been exposed to 
smoke repeatedly... doesn't really matter what "kind" of smoke.?? It is very 
obvious in singers.?? It's hard to describe, but is distinctive.? Even second 
hand has this effect, although not as severe.?? I can almost always tell is 
one of my vocal students smokes, or even has smoked, or whose parents 
smoke.?? It's not 100 percent, but about 95...

Again, though, James is right.?? While the body is remarkable, and given 
time, can recover, some of that damage is permanent, much as a scar is 
permanent.?? It will fade with time, but is almost always there.

Ray


-----Original Message-----
From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com; homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:31 pm
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Music was Newsweek -- "A one point race" ?





> >Billie Holiday smoked pot and cigarettes and shot heroin in her body. She 
> 

Soooo .... we should all smoke pot and cigarettes and shoot heroin so that we 
will sound good???

In my misspent youth I worked as a speech therapist, grandiosed as 'speech 
pathologist'.  I can tell you that smoking does permanent damage to the vocal 
mechanism.


James
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