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There is no British city exactly called "The Smoke".

London in England, Britain, is nicknamed "The Big Smoke", in a reference to the Great Fire of London.

These British cites have the nickname "Big Smoke" in reference to their Victorian industrial image where the skylines were polluted with coal smog:

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