so, Ayu DOES smoke?
 

as quoted from one of recent posts, translated to English

or did I miss smth? I remember hard debates about her smoking or not smoking, and some photos shown, but yet we didn't know the truth so

I actually don't mind her smoking at all! just interested :lech

I thought it would be weird the first time you smoke, so that's why it make it hard to breathe? Or maybe ayu haven't had a cigarette in such a long time that she's not used to it?

Soooo....? Smoking is fine.

I don't know , there were reports of her in the past that she does smoke & etc

a lot of artistes I support , they also do it & frankly it's their own decision to do so & I'm not in a position to say that they're right/wrong to do it but obviously at the end of the day , the fans for any artiste want it to be at their best interest & to snub the habit altogether

That's right! Now the truth is out everybody can stop arguing about it :) Besides it's not like she smokes all the time anyway.

I'm not if she does or not, but she doesn't seem like someone who smokes to me...

Edit- In her blog for 7/21/09 she said she was trying not to smoke too much.

I don't care if she smokes as long as it doesn't destroy her voice.

who cares? as long as she keeps making (good) music ... :shrug

Haha, I never know Ayu is smoking.
Better don't smoke. Not that good anyway.

As I said in the other topic it seems that message from 07/21 didn't deal with her smoking at all, the excerpt mentioned has been translated differently by ayuangel, but I can't tell which one is real since I don't know japanese at all ^^ :

http://ayuangel.com/images/news/diar...2009%20(1).jpg
"Then, I don't know if I sucked too much on my drinking straw, but my tea just got right deep inside my throat and I started to suffocate.
So I put it slowly far away from me.
And I came back to my senses"

Otherwise even if she smokes it's no big deal it's her problem XD

I don't know, but think that yes.

though I don't really like people smoking
its Ayu herself,its her own choice

As far as I can remember, she said once on one of her TA message entry that she will stop smoking for a reason.

And yes, it was conFIRMed.

I personally hate smoking, but if she does it... uhmm, is her body after all. she decides what to do to herself etc
is not like "good for her that she smokes" anyway... but yea, I believe that singers shouldn't smoke.

That sounds more like something she would say or talk about, though I don't care if she smokes or not

It's fine with me, whether she smokes or not. She's not a compulsive smoker, so it's fine with me!

LOL "Smoking is fine" I think what you mean to say is that her smoking is fine with you...cus obviously smoking isn't fine, it can cause all sorts of problems and complications.

She does? Really? @_@ I really hate smokers. Well at least she's trying to do it less. Maybe she'll do an Obama and quit totally.

Sounds like Deli might've mistranslated it? Hm..

It will cause health problems.... I guess the translations might be wrong, there's a bubble tea pic above that chunk of text.... Even if she DOES smoke, i don't think she will admit it openly in her blog.... (privacy purposes)

I hope so!
It's not like she's a rabid smoker, or we'd probably see some evidence in making of PVs or backstage if it was that bad.
I don't like smokers either (I don't hate them! I'd just rather they didn't smoke). Maybe it's because my relatives smoke ALL the time... I can't stand the smell!
I hope Ayu doesn't become addicted. :no

someone can quote that team message?
honestly i never knew Ayu smoked. she doesn't seem the kind of smoker, and really never see a pic with ayu smoking!
(although i don't seem too but i smoke)

Ugh.
I don't like smoking, is unhealthy and I hate the smell of cigarettes x_x but.. I respect others choices.
So, I don't care.

Let me discover
*calls ayu's number*
Hi Ayu! It's Andrenekoi here! From AHS! We are wondering on the forum if you smokes... Ayu? Ayu?! o_O
--

She said "Stop calling me, ur freak! I'm not ur friend and I'm tired of these damn stalkers!"

;-;

^ :laugh

Well, I'm going to be among the few that says who cares if she smokes? :P But if she's trying to stop, good for her. :) She must know what a disgusting habit it can become...

Smoking does mess around with your voice. Her voice is a lot more deeper now than it was when she debuted. I always assumed it was due to her crazy schedule so she couldn't rest her voice like she should. Smoking would contribute to that.

but since she quit it... no point of having a debate here~

I'm sure Ayu has had her fair share of cigarettes.
whether or not she does them currently, nobody will really know except the people who know her personally in her day-to-day life.

However, I would think that Ayu is really focusing hard on improving her voice's quality (or at least keep it intact), especially since the 13 yen drop in the avex market ever since the news of her ear.

I can tell a huge difference in her lives recently, she sounds very similar to the song recording, not like she is "wingin' it," like she used to (RAINBOW era)

I wouldn't be surprised if Ayu drank anywhere from ten to one hundred times as often as she smokes. Or if she dropped acid from time to time, or rolled ecstasy or hell, smoked pot.

there are pictures of her somoking, somewhere from my story era, so it's pretty much confirmed... she drinks too. but as far as I know she tries to do it less often. what's wrong with smoking or drinking a toast from time to time?

and even if she was smoking&drinking often why would you care?

I think you're right.
Its a privacy matter.

I was wondering when this would come up again.

Mistranslation seems odd.

It's equally plausible that she smokes :shrug We already knew that. Who cares.

I guess it's more a question of how much? But I don't know...in my elitist world any smoking is totally disgusting, so I don't really care how much she smokes, only that, I hope she's smart enough not to be dependent on it, which I don't think she is.

Kind of obvious to me.

Why people in this forum have such a bad stigma about smokers/smoking? Sure it's unhealthy but everyone knows.

In the real world, people do things that are bad for health but FEEL good.

And she is Japanese... so many casual smokers.

someone has posted a picture of ayu smoking before when she was out at dinner (?) with her friends.

who cares.

she proved it herself. she just smoked :P

Just because she smoked in that instant doesn't mean its a habit, right? I mean, a lot of people just have a smoke once in a while, I'm assuming more so in Japan cause so many people there smoke. I wouldn't really care if she did though.

Doesn't Koda Kumi smoke? That might explain her slightly husky voice though. It suits her though, her voice, its sexy.

Then she should stop. To be honest, I don't think she's a habitual smoker to get to the point it would really mess up her voice. Celebrities who smoke habitually often are caught smoking more than once or twice.

So she really did smoke? That's no biggy,,, but at least she stopped :yes (Gah! So many of my fav artists smoke, it's not cool!)

exactly.

I certainly hope she doesn't smoke, as smoking kills and death is not very beneficial to one's career (unless one is Michael Jackson).

Yep - she'd better stop now, experts say it's really bad, and it's not really good if you're a serious singer...

By the way, what message number is this, and could someone get a translation if available?

And by the way, although this is off, I'm not sure about this, but I think Ayaka Iida does not smoke - does anybody confirm about this?

no, kuu has stated that she doesn't smoke and she rarely drinks.

lol wow.

It seems like she only smokes on rare occasions. :shrug
I think she drinks more often than she smokes.

This whole discussion seems to be based on a mistranslation. I'll leave it closed for now.