Even though lit Smokers depict an exposed flame on their front-facing texture, they lack the flame particles emitted by Furnaces. Lit Furnaces and lit Smokers appear similar enough that this seems like an unintuitive difference to me.
MC-301256
Smokers don't emit flame particles like Furnaces
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