- When I smoked weed, I would get this cough. I think they call it smokers cough- The cough was annoying. And sometimes, the cough would last for days and then go away. And then it would come back again in a couple of weeks. It would always be around the corner- And the voice sounded like a smoker. It was scratchy. Now I could smoke less. You know what they say - the dose makes the poison. But that wasn’t possible for me- No wonder I would get the smoker’s cough and scratchy voice. But since I quit smoking, I don’t get the smoker’s cough. And my voice is just fine- And it also made me realize all the smoke I was inhaling couldn’t be good for me. Especially the amount that I was smoking