Allegedly, here in the backwoods of the Appalachian area redneck drunks used to mix some sort of painting chemical (lacquer thinner, paint thinner, acetone or some other chemical) with Kool-aid and once mixed the concoction smoked... thus "drinking smoke"
The term is usually used to describe someone who is wigging out (tripping, high seeing things) or acting exceedingly stupid, in a manner that it would appear the person had been drinkin' smoke.
(sees someone acting stupid...) Hey, you been drinkin' smoke?
(your friend tells you he spent 100 bucks on some flip flops) point and exclaim, "drankin' smoke"
Drinking To Forget is an underground cover band formed in NSW Australia by 5 high school friends in their pursuit of passion, the band members are only known by their aliases similar to how the members of Slipknot are only known by their masks, the members aliases are; Crilbus on Drums, Chesmond on Guitar, Haroldinho on Bass and Winfeild on Vocals. The band was formed on the 7th of August 2018.
Person 1: "Aye, what are you listening to my guy?"
Person 2: "It's a band called Drinking To Forget, you've probably never heard of them."
2. (Noun) The Wednesday before Thanksgiving where one make it a personal goal to get proper hammered to the point of self disgust but I don't really remember cuz I was super sauced
3. (Noun) Any day of excessive drinking that compels you to give thanks to your fellow man for creating sweet drunk juice.