1.   A New York Times poll says Al Gore is picking up steam, which is considered good, though picking up steam can lead to blowing smoke.

2.   Clinton had help blowing smoke.

3.   Freccia and Tucker could not be reached for comment Wednesday to determine whether the site is serious or just blowing smoke.

4.   Of course, Teach is blowing smoke.

5.   When Hillary was introduced to Joe, he was sitting behind his desk dictating and blowing smoke, with his bare feet on his glass desk.

6.   While Horton praised Washington Mutual for dropping a portion of its ATM surcharges in October, BofA and Wells Fargo representatives charged that the consumer group is blowing smoke.

7.   With apologies to his big tobacco clients, special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, so far, has been better at blowing smoke than at bringing down the Clintons.

8.   The southwesterly wind was notoriously responsible for blowing smoke from forest and land fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra to Malaysia and Singapore last year.

9.   The suspect said he raped his last victim after hypnotizing her by blowing smoke in her face.