The usage of THE

[Duc]

Hello everyone,
Please look at the sentence below.
1/The escaping prisoner camped in a wood but he didn't light a fire because SMOKE rising from the wood might attract attention.
As far as I know,we use THE before nouns which imply things that have been already known.So in this case Smoke has been already defined because there is a participle phrase behind it.So why don't we use THe before smoke.
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[Molly]

[Lost_Soul]

Also, there was no smoke, the author was considering what might happen.
I think if the prisoner had lit a fire, the author could have written "and the smoke attacted unnecessary attention"

[Molly]