Bryan, Now you are making me depressed!
Why are you so sure it is all due to smoking? I know people who smoke as much as Joni who still have beautiful singing voices and I have a singer-songwriter friend who has never smoked, drank alcohol or done any other substances a day in his life who has lost his beautiful voice over the years and now slips into Tom Waits territory on occasion. There are so many other factors that can affect one's voice - illness, age, medication, etc. I just feel that blaming it all on smoking in Joni's case may be unfair to her when there is a lot of other evidence that there have been a number of other factors beyond her control which could have altered her voice. Kakki
