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Liner Notes
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Body
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Voice Care with David M. Alessi, M.D
EFFECTS OF SMOKE AND STAGE SMOKE OR FOG MACHINES ON THE VOICE
MBADC: What about smoke?
DA: It’s always injurious. You definitely have to work with your
manager and your set designer. Any kind of smoke is going to be hurtful. Especially
cigarette smoking is going to be bad, because it has a direct effect on the nose and the
vocal cords, it leads to a lot of coughing, phlegm, and things like that, [and] it can
lead to getting colds easier.
Stage smoke, especially the oil-based kind, can also be extremely hurtful to the larynx. It can actually cause some permanent damages to the
lungs, the nose, and to the voice box. If you’re
going to be having smoke onstage, you have to basically think about yourself first. Be
very, very concerned about your throat…And don’t let someone, for the sake of
making the show look hip, screw around with your vocal cords. For example, [one of my
performers] had some smoke sprays that were basically in the center of the stage, and he
was having to walk through them. So it was a very simple matter--and of course it lowered
the cost too. He just had them redesign everything so he didn’t have to walk through
them…That’s what had actually hurt his vocal cords, and he’d started to
have lots of problems with it.
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