Big Smoke
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Big Smoke can refer to:
- The Big Smoke, a name applied to various cities, including:
- Belfast
- Dublin
- London, labeled as such since the late 19th century.
- Manchester, during the industrial revolution.
- Melbourne, labeled as such in the late 19th century during the industrial boom following the Victorian gold rush, often by provincial Victorians and by people from other parts of Australia.
- Sudbury (Greater Sudbury) Ontario, labeled for Vale INCO smelter's large smoke stack.
- Sydney
- Toronto
- Vancouver, British Columbia because of its occasional heavy fogs and in the past, millsmoke ("smoke" in the old trade language there meant "fog" and "cloud").
- a character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Great Smog of 1952, air pollution in London
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