Down in the valley, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a well educated and worldly girl from the big smoke of Lexington, Kentucky, argues bitterly with her husband, Cole.
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One of them is Bill Owens, her uncle, who is credited with taking the young Dolly Parton out of the Great Smoky Mountains and into the big smoke.
Deng spoke no English when he arrived in the Big Smoke at the age of eight, yet his football prowess soon made him a popular figure in the school playground.
Planes are flying over the scene, dropping water over the fire and still big plumes of smoke are hundreds of meters in the air ... tons of ambulances, firefighters.
When peat-bog fires blanketed Moscow and other big cities with acrid smoke in 2010, he took the controls of a firefighting plane on national TV.
Now, two large studies suggest that communities that pass laws to curb secondhand smoke get a big payoff -- a drop in heart attacks.
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Democrats accused Republicans of favoring the interests of Big Oil over taxpayers while Republicans derided the effort as simply smoke and mirrors, as opposed to real change.
Crowds who had braved rain and storms to watch the start of the conclave on big screens in St Peter's Square cheered as the black smoke appeared.
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Aside from sadness and anger, the smoke engendered an enduring sense of duty to prevent the next big attack.
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And, even though it is Deutsche's annual meeting tomorrow - and in spite of a "get on with it" letter to the board from some big shareholders organised by Hermes Equity Ownership Services - there is no sign of white smoke.
Old New York, with its brawling bar rooms, smoke stacks and fervent hopes for a better life, has become the next big thing.
About one-third to one-half of adolescents who begin smoking may do so because they see smoking in the movies, some research suggests, and the tobacco industry has spent big bucks in the past to make sure cigarettes appeared in popular movies, according to Smoke Free Movies, a University of California San Francisco project.
Despite big promises, few air purifiers can rid your home of irritants like pollen, dust, and smoke.
"You can get 80 pounds into a backpack, and you get big legs running over the mountain, " says Paul de Felice, co-owner of the Holy Smoke smokeasy in the eastern B.
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