Tobacco smoke certainly affects me - even if the bar is suposed to be non smoking - like the middle bar in Sidmouth, there is almost always someone who thinks it doesn't apply to them and I have had many an evening ruined by being unable to escape at once when someone lights up close by. Even worse are the times when someone is so close by that their smoke sets me off coughing and I have to get out into the open air - even if it is in the middle of someone's song.

I have even had someone enquiring if I was alright whilst holding a cigarette within inches of my face, and then burn my arm as I forced their hand away.

Inhaling even a small amount of tobacco smoke wipes out the upper half of my vocal range for several hours.

Anne