1.   The corridor opened into a low smoky room.

2.   In a less smoky room, David Robinson is sitting with his son.

3.   Move to a less smoky room, closing doors as you retreat and opening the window a crack to breathe.

4.   Off hours in smoky rooms a clean-cut law student bets his tuition in big-stakes poker games with a Russian gambling kingpin and other high rollers.

5.   Perhaps spending the previous two days overeating at Las Vegas buffets and playing the slots in smoky rooms was not the best prelude to this kind of exertion.

6.   The glow of incense, candles and lanterns is all that illuminate the smoky room.

7.   The smoky room was packed with ordinary people airing their fears, their frustrations, their celebrations, their doubts.

8.   The rich smell of leather is definitely different from that of a smoky room where politics are being discussed.