Winehouse's publicist clarifies health issue

June 24, 2008 A discrepancy regarding the health of Amy Winehouse arose after the singer's father said she had early stage emphysema brought on by smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes. In an interview published Sunday by the Daily Mail of London, Mitch Winehouse said that his daughter's crack and cigarette smoking had led to early-stage emphysema, and that the singer had an irregular heartbeat. "The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs, it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her," Mitch Winehouse was quoted as saying.

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