0876 – Vaping And The Voice

2023.05.26 – 0876 – Vaping And The Voice

Vaping

This trend is too young for there to be hard and fast stats on how it may affect the larynx and voice, and that’s probably good enough reason in itself to be wary of taking up the habit.

Personally, I’d not want a cocktail of vegetable glycerine, poly-ethylene glycol, nicotine, and flavourings, pyrazine additives, aldehydes (formaldehyde and acet-aldehyde), and trace metals (nickel, chromium, cadmium and tin), in my lungs…

And of course, to get there, the hot vapourised chemical vapour pass over the delicate vocal fold tissues, irritating and inflaming them, leading to possible …hoarseness, loss of vocal range, voice fatigue and vocal injury. As we’ve seen before these factors cause a person to push harder for vocal production, increasing the possibility of further and more serious damage (think vocal fold nodules, polyps and cysts).

And that’s before we even think of what the cocktail of chemicals is doing in the lungs, where the power behind your sound is produced.

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