Noun
A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'. Douglas Coupland
There's a smokestack on the back of every government program. Milton Friedman
The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers. John Mearsheimer
I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories. David Lynch
And there was this sergeant in mortars, big redhead, damn if he couldn’t put an eighty-one down a smokestack at maximum range.” Source: Internet
To make the vessel more seaworthy a convert funnel shaped smokestack was placed over the smoke outlet while taller fresh air vents were installed. Source: Internet