LONDON (Reuters) - Soul singer Amy Winehouse hasdeveloped the lung condition emphysema and has been warned bydoctors that she will die if she continues smoking drugs, herfather said in an interview on Sunday.

Mitch Winehouse said the incurable illness, which leavessufferers struggling for breath, was diagnosed when his daughterhad series of health checks in hospital.

“The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs itwon’t just ruin her voice, it will kill her,” he was quoted assaying in the Sunday Mirror. “The doctors have said that if she hadcontinued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid– she wouldn’t have been able to breathe.”