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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.

Smolagents

Smolagents is a lightweight open-source Python library from Hugging Face for building AI agents, launched in 2024, whose CodeAgent writes actions as executable Python code rather than JSON.

Smoldering systemic mastocytosis

Smoldering systemic mastocytosis (SSM) is a nonadvanced WHO subtype of systemic mastocytosis defined by two or more B-findings without C-findings, higher mast cell burden than indolent SM, about 9% progression risk, and antimediator therapy.

Smolen–Gulf Bridge

The Smolen–Gulf Bridge is a covered road bridge in Ashtabula County, Ohio, opened in 2008 as the longest covered bridge in the United States at 613 feet.

Smolensk (Смоленск)

Smolensk (Смоленск), a Hero City in western Russia on the Dnieper, administrative center of Smolensk Oblast; area 166.15 km², population about 320,000, with a 1595–1602 fortress wall and a history of Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian rule.

Smolensk air disaster

Smolensk air disaster: 10 April 2010 crash of Polish Air Force Tu-154M near Smolensk Severny airport, Russia, killing all 96 aboard including President Lech Kaczyński; official investigations found pilot error in fog, later disputed.

Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God

The Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, also called the Hodegetria of Smolensk, is a celebrated Russian icon of the Virgin holding the Christ Child.

Smolensk Lakeland Biosphere Reserve

Smolensk Lakeland Biosphere Reserve (Smolenskoye Poozerye), a 2002 UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, around a 1992 national park of 146,237 ha with 35 glacial lakes, 74% forest cover, and zoned core, buffer, and transition areas.

Smolensk levy of 1632

The Smolensk levy of 1632 (Смоленский набор 1632 года) was Muscovy's mobilization of Western-drilled infantry regiments, which fought at Smolensk under boyar Mikhail Shein, for the Smolensk War of 1632 to 1634.

Smolensk nuclear power plant

The Smolensk nuclear power plant is an operating nuclear power station in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, with three RBMK-1000 reactors in service between 1982 and 1990, owned by Rosatom.

Smolensk Oblast

Smolensk Oblast (Смоленская область), a Russian federal subject on the Belarus border, formed 27 September 1937; area 49,786 sq km, center Smolensk, population about 857,000-935,000, GRP 348 billion rubles (2019).

Smolensk Trade Treaty of 1229

The Smolensk Trade Treaty of 1229, also called the Smolensk Trade Truth, is a trade agreement issued by Prince Mstislav Davidovich regulating German and Russian merchants.

Smolensk Voivodeship

Smolensk Voivodeship (województwo smoleńskie) was a voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, created in 1508 around Smolensk and ceded to Russia in 1667.

Smolensk War

The Smolensk War (Смоленская война) of 1632 to 1634 was fought between Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over Smolensk, ending with the Peace of Polyanovka.

SmolLM

SmolLM is a family of small, fully open language models released by Hugging Face for on-device use, spanning three generations from July 2024 to July 2025.

Smolny Institute

The Smolny Institute (Смольный институт благородных девиц) was Russia's first girls' secondary school, founded by Catherine II in 1764 in St Petersburg. It educated noble daughters until 1917.

Smolnya Branch of the Yakub Kolas Literary Memorial Museum

Smolnya (Смольня) branch of the Yakub Kolas Literary Memorial Museum, opened 1967 in Stowbtsy District, Belarus; preserves the Mitskevich family house and the site of the 1912 Kolas–Kupala meeting.

Smoluchowski coagulation equation

The Smoluchowski coagulation equation, introduced by Marian Smoluchowski in 1916, is an integrodifferential equation describing how pairs of particles or clusters merge irreversibly into larger ones.

SmolVLA

SmolVLA is an open-source vision-language-action model for robotics released by Hugging Face in June 2025, small enough at about 450M parameters to train on a consumer GPU.

SmolVLM

SmolVLM is a family of small, open-source vision language models developed by Hugging Face for memory-constrained on-device use, first released in November 2024 and extended to video-capable models in 2025.

Smolyan (Смолян)

Smolyan (Смолян), formerly Pashmakli until 1934, is a mountain town and district center in the Central Rhodopes of southern Bulgaria, formed in 1960 by merging Smolyan, Ezerovo, Raykovo, and Ustovo; district population 88,816 (2025), lowest birth rate in Bulgaria, Pamporovo resort nearby.

Smoochies (album)

Smoochies is Ashnikko's second studio album, released 17 October 2025 on Parlophone; 15 tracks, 37:37, produced mainly by Slinger, featuring COBRAH on 'Wet Like', with UK chart peaks reported as 14 and 32.