Smoke
The Slang Dictionary Etymological Historical and Anecdotal · 1913 · p. 26
London. From the peculiar dense cloud which overhangs London. The metropolis is by no means so smoky as Sheffield, Birmingham, .; yet country-people, when going to London, frequently say they are on their way to the SMOKE ; and London ers, when leaving for the country, say they are going out of the SMOKE .
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