To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist>
Subject: Re: Quitting Smoking
Date sent: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 11:42:30 -0500
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

Andrew,

You have all your own answers! You know you need to quit.. and you know
that the side effects of quitting are going to be that you need to adjust to
having the extra moisture that the cigarettes are currently drying out.

You should discuss this with your teacher. Your teacher should be able to
tell you all of the ways in which you might be getting a good result this
way, but you'll get a far better result (after getting used to the change)
after quitting. Your teacher is the key, because she knows your voice and
has the technical knowlege to speak to the physiological changes (for the
better!) that will take place.

I used to be a light smoker, too, so I know some of what you're going
through. What really keeps me from ever lighting up now is that my voice
can do things that it never could when I was smoking. That and the fact
that I refuse to be a pawn for the murderous, slimy, disgusting snake-oil
tobacco industry. They ain't getting one more penny from me for their death
sticks.

Carol S.
Used to think she looked so COOL with a cigarette.. so Lauren Bacall... HA!