Voice changes also occur with viral and bacterial infection, like the common cold or flu, and are one of the characteristics of heavy smoking.

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Smoking, often heavy smoking, is common when you have schizophrenia.

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Huxley had been battling emphysema after years of heavy smoking, but Clark said he had recently been given a clean bill of health and his death had come as a shock.

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Though it is not, in itself, a life-threatening condition, trimethylaminuria leads many sufferers to heavy smoking (in an effort to mask their appalling odour) or, in at least one case, to suicide.

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As well as chewing tobacco, other risk factors include heavy conventional smoking, drinking.

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It's Ephron's valentine to those hard-charging, heavy-smoking, gruff reporters she met in newsrooms with ink in their veins and booze on their breath.

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For generations, far too many people have died before their time with our culture of poor diet, heavy drinking and smoking all taking their toll.

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Smoking and heavy drinking also are thought to play a role.

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