Smoking in the first place shortens your breath. Breath is very essential for singing. Smoking itself doesn't directly damage vocal chords, but it gives you problems with breathing, which creates stress on vocal chords and damages them. Add the screaming..yeah xD

yeah i saw much cases were the fans collapsed due to screaming XD so crazy...

they didn't breath enough >>; xD

(I had that happen to me too though)

oh, ok..... well, then it is definitely good for me.

so.. smoking could have contributed.

oh... does anyone know if there's an English version of this song?

YouTube - Tokio Hotel-Wir schliessen uns ein

I can translate it for you XD
We lock ourselves ^^

ok.... but that doesn't tell me if an english version exists.

Dont know :| but here is a subbed version, or do you want to hear them in english?

YouTube - Tokio Hotel - Wir Schließen Uns Ein [w/ subs]

I don't think there is. Never seen any. And TH used to go nearly nonstop on our music channels .x

huh... ok.

odd.. I could have swore I heard it in English... ah well.

oh... addition to reply to Nan..... I didn't say that they want to go to a hotel in Tokyo, as the reason they chose that name.

HAHAHAHAHA!
We lock ourselves?

That was a new one.
Wir schliessen uns ein would pretty much mean 'we're locking ourselves up'. In the meaning of that. *nod* Shutting ourselves in.. as in.. in ourselves.. like that.