Talk:Smoke-filled room

Figurative usage
Does the increasing figurative usage really have more to do with tobacco regulation than the general decline in popularity of smoking? --Srwm4 19:27, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I think it's fair to say that the expression is ONLY used figuratively in modern times. Anyone who hears of a political decision being made in a smoke filled room will think of "party seniors" or important politicians making a decision without consulting or considering the public rather than of a room where people are actually smoking cigars or cigarettes.81.157.183.182 (talk) 23:18, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


 * A link that may be worth looking at for use in the main article: paper by professor Ellen Katz: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1262931. 68.40.166.76 (talk) 04:45, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

The 2016 Republican Primary is very interesting with secret meeting (then splashed on DrudgeReport) to "Stop Trump". -- AstroU (talk) 21:37, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Delete allusion section?
This section is just a spoiler regarding the X-Files which really doesn't contribute anything. Delete it? ~ Resister (talk) 06:58, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Delete psychological experiment
About half the article describes a psychological experiment on the bystander effect that involves a literal smoke-filled room but no secretive decision-making. As only a tiny fraction of uses of this phrase in public discourse refer to this experiment, if no objections are raised I propose to replace this half of the article by a single sentence that refers to the Bystander effect article where the experiment is also documented. Lee Choquette (talk) 18:23, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Song reference
Smoke Filled Room from The Guess Who Song new mother nature. B137 (talk) 04:18, 11 June 2020 (UTC)