What is it, exactly? Off-license boxing?>>
A smoker was usually a private gathering of men -- normally
portrayed as
bigwigs, movers and shakers -- to watch a boxing match.
Sometimes these
were amateur boxers. The term "smoker" comes from most of the
attendees
smoking big fat cigars. Ralph Ellison describes a smoker in
an early
chapter of INVISIBLE MAN.
--Duane
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