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Truth in Television: smoking is bad, among other things, for your voice. People who smoke a lot will have a significant Vocal Evolution as time goes by. They will sound deeper, lower, and raspier, giving a gravelly voice effect. Many will have trouble with their voice as time goes by, especially clearing their throat or swallowing several times when they talk. A smoky voice can be used for evil characters to appear more threatening (Evil Sounds Raspy), but also to appear suave and sexy. Some actors and musicians have a trademark smoky voice that makes them sound more husky, manly, and/or cool. To some, it's not even a side effect: they deliberately use it as an excuse not to give up their habit. What it isn't, however, is the baritone voice of a black bear promoting fire safety. A Sub-Trope of Smoking Is Cool and Aroused by Their Voice. Compare Harsh Vocals. Contrast Scratchy-Voiced Senior, who may sound that way from smoking, but not usually, and they're usually not portrayed as sexy due to their age. Please note that we're not listing here people who only have a deep, sexy voice or who just happen to smoke a lot. It really has to be audible when they talk. |
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Kid Paddle: One strip has the boys mess with a talking doll until it has an extremely deep voice, with Horace noting that it sounds exactly like his uncle, a chain-smoking trucker. | |
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Ronnie Spector's voice after her reemergence in the late 1980s is noticeably lower and huskier than it was in the 1960s when she was active with The Ronettes, inevitably a result of her heavy smoking. | |
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Harvey Fierstein also parodied this trope on Cheers when he guest-starred as Mark, a former boyfriend of Rebecca's. | |
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William Sykes from Oliver & Company. Mob boss. Smokes a cigar. Sounds menacing, just like he is. | |
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The Simpsons: Marge's family suffers from this due to all of them (except for Marge) being heavy smokers. Her sisters Patty and Selma have very low and raspy voices. Her mother's voice is so damaged that she can barely talk. A flashback in "Three Men and a Comic Book" shows Patty and Selma with soft girly voices until they decide to take up smoking, and in a matter of weeks, their voices change to their distinctive ones from the show. Their late father (who is only seen in flashbacks) also had a raspy voice and smoked cigars. Marge also has a raspy voice but not nearly as bad as her mother or sisters. Since she never smoked herself, this could have been from secondhand smoke while growing up. In the episode "Lisa the Greek" Lisa has an Imagine Spot where she's an old woman who has been gambling all her life. She smokes and has a raspy voice. Doris the lunchlady is also a prime example, sharing a voice actress with Doris the makeup lady from the below-mentioned The Critic (Doris Grau). |
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The version of Dazzler seen in the universe of Age of Apocalypse is described as having such a voice as she'd taken up the habit, no longer caring about her voice after Apocalypse's reign destroyed her singing career. | |
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In the French dub of One Piece, Smoker the chain smoker speaks with a very rough and raspy voice. He isn't as raspy in other dubs, however. | |
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In the English localization of the Metal Gear franchise, the central characters Solid Snake and Naked Snake/Big Boss speak with a very gruff, gravelly voice. Originally, this was explained by Solid Snake being a chain smoker. Later on, a Revision showed that he is a clone of Big Boss, who has the exact same voice actor. Of course, this could mean that chain-smoking is also a genetic trait. | |
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Marianne Faithfull: Years of smoking also gave her a gravelly voice. In the words of James Hetfield, he invited her for a guest spot in a Metallica song because Faithfull had "that weathered, smelling-the-cigarettes-on-the-CD" type of voice. | |
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In Yakuza 0, by far the gruffest and raspiest voice belongs to the Kenno Clan patriarch, Daisaku Kuze, who is shown to be lighting up every now and then. His voice actor Hitoshi Ozawa gives his normal voice to Kuze. | |
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BeetleJuice has Juno, a ghost-world public servant who is always smoking and has a very raspy voice. | |
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Eleonore von Wittenburg from Dies Irae is a chain smoker and fittingly has the deepest and most raspy voice out of the entire female cast (and some of the male cast). | |
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After The Heavenly Kid dies, the woman behind him on the train starts coughing and asks in the raspiest voice imaginable "Got a light?" | |
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Gintama's Hijikata, who is rarely seen without a cigarette in his mouth, has quite a rough and husky voice, provided by Kazuya Nakai whose voice is pretty recognisable due to this quality. | |
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Kathy from Daughter for Dessert really must have indulged in a lot of cigarettes. The voiceovers reveal that at 19, she already has the voice you’d expect on a woman who’s been smoking for a couple of decades. | |
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In Smokin' Aces, Lazlo Soot tries to disguise his voice by smoking a ton of cigarettes in order to attain a sufficiently raspy voice. | |
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A frequent joke/observation levelled at actress Anne Kirkbride, who portrayed the character of Deirdre Barlow in Coronation Street for over forty years. She began in the long-running soap opera as a teenager. Her voice in her early appearances was markedly different from her current low, husky rasp. Imitators and comedians have made much of this. She admitted this is due to a smoking habit she no longer had. In 2015, she was to leave the show "indefinitely" and died in January of that year. | |
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John Marston from Red Dead Redemption is a hard living, chainsmoking cowboy with a gravely, gritty voice to match. He sounds even hoarser in Red Dead Redemption 2, courtesy of his voice actor, Rob Weithoff, taking up smoking. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney manages this despite lacking voice acting. The perpetually pipe-smoking Dee Vasquez's Voice Grunting is the lower-pitched blips normally reserved for male characters. | |
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Dr. Girlfriend from The Venture Bros. has an exaggeratedly deep and masculine voice. It is eventually revealed that it is due to her being a chain smoker who regularly goes through three packs in one day. | |
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Brian Johnson of AC/DC has picked up an unusually high-pitched but still gravelly singing voice due to heavy smoking. | |
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Belgian singer Tom Barman (dEUS) also clearly tries to mimic Leonard Cohen's and Tom Waits' smoky voices on his later albums. | |
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The Blues Brothers features a very raspy fellow at Elwood's SRO flop house. Elwood delivers the raspy fellow a pack of smokes. | |
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There was an ad on a French radio station for The Punisher where the announcer's voice slowly deepened as he specifically mentioned that movie ads required the voice of a three-packs-a-day man. | |
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In Blackadder Goes Forth, a nurse who has just slept with Edmund says how she feels that men should smoke for this reason. | |
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Played up in The Runaway Guys' playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past when Emile portrayed Princess Zelda's telepathic message to Link at the start of the game with a rough, gravelly voice, not realising until too late that it was supposed to be her. From then on, Zelda was characterised throughout the run as a middle-aged chain-smoker. | |
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Parodied in How I Met Your Mother when Lily gets a smoker's cough and is dubbed over by Harvey Fierstein (whose voice is, ironically, not the result of smoking, but of a childhood accident). | |
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Doris from The Critic is a chain smoker, and speaks with a deep, raspy voice. If she laughs, it almost inevitably turns into a hacking cough. | |
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