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Smoke signal
A smoke signal is a visual communication method in which puffs or columns of smoke convey prearranged messages within line of sight, among the oldest forms of telegraphy.
Smoke Signals (film)
Smoke Signals (1998) is a comedy-drama directed by Chris Eyre and written by Sherman Alexie, the first wide-release feature written, directed, co-produced, and acted by Native Americans, about a road trip to retrieve a father's ashes; it won Sundance awards and joined the National Film Registry in 2018.
Smoke testing (software)
Smoke testing, also called build verification testing, is a fast software test of a build's most critical functions, run before deeper testing so broken builds are rejected early.
Smokebox
The smokebox is the cylindrical chamber at the front of a steam locomotive's boiler, beneath the chimney, where exhaust gases collect before leaving the stack.
Smoked salmon
Smoked salmon is salt-cured salmon exposed to wood smoke: cold-smoked below 32.2°C stays raw-textured, hot-smoked to 62.8°C internal cooks flaky. Related unsmoked cures include gravlax and lox; Nova style is cured then cold-smoked.
Smokedope2016
Smokedope2016 (born 2001) is an American cloud rap and trap rapper from Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the Listen to the Kids label, known for hiding his face, the 2022 Joeyy feature "IM NOT GOD BUT I WISH I WAS", and the trilogy THE COMEUP, THE PEAK, and THE COMEDOWN.
Smokehouse
A smokehouse is a small outbuilding where meat or fish is preserved and flavored by smoke after curing with salt, common on farms until about 1930.
Smokehouse Creek Fire
The Smokehouse Creek Fire was a February 2024 wildfire that burned over 1 million acres in the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma, the largest on record in Texas.
Smokejumper
Smokejumper: wildland firefighter who parachutes from about 3,000 feet into remote roadless wildfires for initial attack. US program began 1939; first fire jump July 12, 1940; about 450 jumpers at nine USFS and BLM bases.
Smokeless powder
Smokeless powder is a class of nitrocellulose propellants developed in the late 19th century to replace black powder. It is manufactured in forms like flakes or grains.
Smokepurpp
Smokepurpp (Omar Jeffery Pineiro), Miami rapper-producer of the SoundCloud rap era, Lil Pump collaborator, Alamo Records signee, gold single "Audi", albums Deadstar 2 and Florida Jit.
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 American action comedy directed by Hal Needham, in which a trucker bootlegs 400 cases of Coors beer from Texas to Georgia.
Smokey and the Bandit II
Smokey and the Bandit II is a 1980 American action comedy directed by Hal Needham, the second film in the Smokey and the Bandit series, starring Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason.
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983), also released as Smokey and the Bandit III, is the third Universal Pictures film in the series, directed by Dick Lowry, starring Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed, reshot from the abandoned Smokey Is the Bandit after poor previews, with a Burt Reynolds cameo.
Smokey Bear
Smokey Bear, the U.S. Forest Service wildfire prevention mascot created August 9, 1944 with the Ad Council and NASF; slogan 'Only you can prevent wildfires'; a burned 1950 cub became the living Smokey at the National Zoo.
Smokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson (William Robinson Jr., b. 1940), Detroit-born R&B singer, songwriter, and producer; founder of the Miracles and Motown vice president; wrote "My Girl" and "My Guy"; known for A Quiet Storm, "Cruisin'", and the 1987 Grammy-winning "Just to See Her".
Smokie (band)
Smokie is an English pop-rock band from Bradford, formed in the 1960s, whose run of mid-to-late 1970s hits was led by "Living Next Door to Alice" (1976).
Smokin' Aces
Smokin' Aces is a 2007 American action comedy film written and directed by Joe Carnahan, in which magician Buddy "Aces" Israel takes a mob informant deal and a bounty draws killers to Lake Tahoe.
Smoking
Smoking: inhalation of burning tobacco, mainly via cigarettes; over 7 million deaths yearly, 1.2 billion users, global prevalence down from 33.1% (2000) to 19.5% (2024); distinct from vaping and smokeless tobacco.
Smoking (cooking)
Smoking (cooking) is slow, indirect cooking over wood smoke, done hot or cold (cold about 18-25 °C), that preserves and flavors meat, fish, and cheese while raising PAH and Listeria concerns.
Smoking ban
Smoking ban: laws prohibiting smoking in workplaces, restaurants, bars, and public spaces, grounded in WHO FCTC Article 8. Key facts: secondhand smoke kills over 1 million yearly; bans cut cardiovascular events about 12%; no substantial hospitality economic impact; Maldives has the first generational ban.
Smoking cessation
Smoking cessation: quitting tobacco smoking via behavioral counseling, quitlines, and medications (NRT, bupropion, varenicline, cytisine, e-cigarettes). Combined treatment roughly doubles quit rates; WHO issued a 2024 clinical guideline.
Smoking in the United States
Smoking in the United States covers tobacco use from colonial cash-crop era to today: the Bonsack machine and Duke built the cigarette industry, smoking peaked near 42% of adults, the 1964 Surgeon General report and the 1998 Master Settlement drove declines to 9.1% by 2025.
Smoking jacket
Smoking jacket: a men's thigh-length velvet or brocade lounging jacket with shawl collar and frogging, worn after dinner to shield clothes from tobacco smoke; ancestor of the dinner jacket and of Yves Saint Laurent's 1966 Le Smoking.
Smoking Space Man
The Smoking Space Man is a Japanese tin toy robot made by Yonezawa around 1960, sold in the US as Linemar, that puffs real smoke as it walks.
Smoking topography
Smoking topography is a clinical research method measuring how a smoker puffs on a cigarette, including puff count, volume, duration, and interpuff interval, to quantify actual smoke exposure.
Smoking/No Smoking
Smoking/No Smoking is Alain Resnais' 1993 French diptych adapting Alan Ayckbourn's Intimate Exchanges, with Sabine Azéma and Pierre Arditi playing nine Yorkshire villagers whose lives branch on whether Celia smokes a cigarette; it won the 1994 César for Best Film.
Smoky gas field
The Smoky gas field is an operating natural gas field in the Alberta Deep Basin of western Canada, discovered in 1980 and producing mainly from the Montney and Spirit River formations.
Smoky Mountain Wrestling
Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) was a professional wrestling promotion founded by Jim Cornette and financed by Rick Rubin, running Appalachian shows from 1991 until its closure in December 1995.
Smoky quartz
Smoky quartz is the brown to black variety of quartz, its color created by natural irradiation of aluminum-bearing crystals, and is cut as a gemstone.