Smoke Grenade

A smoke grenade is a type of grenade available in the Counter-Strike series. When thrown, it create a medium-sized smoke screen.

Advantages

 * Can effectively hide your team if thrown correctly.
 * Can make a good distraction if not used for covering purposes.
 * When held, the player's movement speed is 250 units per second, meaning they suffer no speed reduction.

Disadvantages

 * Causes no damage to the other team other than loss of vision for a short time.
 * If thrown at a group of enemies wrongly, it can end up making them more or less visible to you and your team.

Tactics

 * When facing a sniper use it to distract them. They will try to find out if the enemy is inside or outside of the cloud. Use this moment at your advantage.
 * Throw it at tight corridors, this will force a few enemies to blindly spray in it.
 * The smoke will sometimes block Flashbang effects, so you can throw a flashbang through smoke and safely follow it without having to look away.
 * Players will instinctively spray into or follow smoke clouds, so on winding maps these can be used to throw enemies off your track.

Counter-tactics

 * Throw an HE Grenade within the cloud, if an enemy is hiding in it, this will damage or kill them.
 * Retreat and camp somewhere safe and away from the smoke.
 * If a smoke cloud is formed in a tight area, camp somewhere and wait till the smoke disappears.