I;m confused ?

[james1nc]

I have the OK Joe's which the fire box is in the right side and the smoke stack is on the left, I have seen some smokers that the smoke stack is on the same side as the fire box. wouldn't you lose a lot of your smoke and temp if the smoke stack is on the same side as the FB?  or do you add a turning plate to force the heat away from the smoke stack

 

[demosthenes9]

 
I have the OK Joe's which the fire box is in the right side and the smoke stack is on the left, I have seen some smokers that the smoke stack is on the same side as the fire box. wouldn't you lose a lot of your smoke and temp if the smoke stack is on the same side as the FB?  or do you add a turning plate to force the heat away from the smoke stack

Yeah, there's a plate the forces the smoke heat to travel the length of the smoker before going up into the cooking chamber.  It's known as a reverse flow setup.