Can someone please explain to me why smoking and singing are so closely linked? It seems to me that a singer’s greatest assets are the voice and lungs… the two things most easily and permanently harmed by the poisons in tobacco smoke. (For that matter, I don’t know why anyone smokes any more, but that’s a different post.)
I’m thinking of this at the moment because I’m making plans to go to Toronto in a couple of weeks to see Lenni Jabour and The Third Floor. While I’m more than happy that they’ve got a regular opportunity to perform, it’s getting harder and harder to make the trek to a place where I’m going to be subjected to this kind of thing. (To my knowledge, none of the group smokes. And it’s not like I haven’t encouraged them to play elsewhere, like London or Kitchener-Waterloo.)
Fortunately I live in a city that not only will soon have a 100% smoking ban in public places, but already has some sensible businesses—like Maggie’s and CopperField’s—that are smoke-free and book great live music.
You are subjecting yourself to smoke by going. Quit bitching about it…
People like you make me sick and I am a non smoker..
John
I asked a question–why do musicians *who do not smoke* frequent places where they can do personal damage–and suggested that there are a number of sites they could perform where they would not cause themselves harm. What sickens you about this?
I’m curious: did you search for “smoking and singing” on Google simply to complain about an honest question? Or is there something about Canadians that you find distasteful–perhaps it’s the whole issue around the repatriation of our constitution, or the increasing anti-monarchist sentiment in the country? Is the free exchange of opinions sickening to you?
Thank you for your otherwise well-reasoned, thoughtful comment. May I suggest you take your own advice.
i just want someone to tell me the best way to quit and if i do will my chances of becoming a singer be greater than if i smoke i just started back and i really dont want to be smoking but i get these huge cravings and thats all it takes then im back to the habbit please someone help me please i think i just need more support and more facts about the affects so anyone that wants to support me and help me through this
christ on a crutch! what a smoke nazi. you only live once. the benefits of smoking far outweigh the health risks. i’m gonna smoke twice as much just to make up for this.
And thus Godwin’s Law is proved again.
In case anyone’s wondering, fef also came here just to complain:
207.180.184.96 - - [19/Mar/2007:22:33:44 -0700] "GET /blog/2002/08/28/singing-and-smoking HTTP/1.1" 200 4471 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=singing+smoking&btnG=Search" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/312.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.6"In the five years since I wrote this post it’s proved impossible to get the barest appearance of civility from those who have chosen to respond, let alone an answer. I’m tired of the unwanted, unprovoked abuse.