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1973 April 22, Martha Weinman Lear, “Clare Boothe Luce, she who is behind ‘The Women’”, in The New York Times:
A widow since 1967, she lives now in Honolulu because, she says, she can enjoy the Californialike climate without the smog.
2015, Richard Blackshire, Newtown Naughty Boy, page 145:
Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.
Hyponyms
black smog(combination of smoke and fog; stereotypical 19th century London smog)
photochemical smog(brown haze and ozone; stereotypical 1980s Los Angeles afternoon smog)
^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future, Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225