Game play question.

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Yes, that's what the manual indicates.

maybe its just my imagination but it seems when firing from a smoke filled hex into another smoke filled hex it decreases the the firing ability even more.

The Manual says : Smoke – Smoke is an obstacle to LOS if it exists between the firer and its intended target. A unit in a Smoke hex can still fire, or be
fired upon, but only at half Attack Strength. Smoke can be fired only by certain Indirect Fire units, and halves the non-assault attack
into or out of its hex.

So does that mean two hexes with smoke; you're fire is half fire and then halved again firing into the second hex with smoke?