Smoking in public areas was pervasive and my room smelled of stale smoke.

The room smelled like stale smoke and Italian salad dressing.

It smelled of stale smoke and dead ash from the open fireplace.

Like everything else in London, the stale smoke in this room had a long history, too.

He took a deep drag on the Winston, then coughed out stale hot smoke.

I waited him out as pieces of other conversations floated around us like the stale smoke.

"As for us," he said, through a cloud of stale smoke.

She felt as if she could even feel smoke, stale and greasy, in her hair.

The pain was always there, like the smell of stale smoke in a seedy bar.

The Jefe's words hung like stale smoke in the air.