Based on Trip Advisor reviews, the OP's comment that this is a newly opened hotel is very accurate. If my internet search is accurate, opening day was October 10th. So, the hotel has only been open 5 weeks.

As someone who worked at the Front Desk of an established hotel and as a Night Manager during the soft opening of a new hotel, I can confidently say that it takes longer than 5 weeks to get to know the quirks of a building. So, I would say that it's highly probable that the Front Desk didn't actually know they were assigning a room with a known issue.

I think it's worth noting that none of the Trip Advisor reviews for this hotel mention smoke. Granted, there are only twenty reviews. Of those reviews 16 are glowing and the remainder (Terrible to Average) appear to be related mostly to issues from opening.

The issues raised in this thread are reasons why I personally will not stay at a newly-opened hotel. It literally took us months to fix all the unfinished odds and ends in that hotel where I was Night Manager. The way we (and virtually every other newly-opened hotel) found out about all the small issues was through guest complaints.