Why the fuck didn't Smoker just fly out of Crocodile's cage brah?

[Warmmedown]

In Arabasta, why didn't smoker just turn into smoke and fly through the cage's bars? Yes, it's seastone, but surely if he had enough control he could make the stream thin enough to fit through without touching the seastone. Or could he not turn into smoke at all while in the cage?

 

[SSJ2]

He can't funnel his entire body through one slit in the cage.. part of his body would be touching the cage rregardless if he could get some through. It wouldn't work.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

I don't think he could make it thin enough. Just too small besides if he did and then touched one of the bars accidentally he could fuse with the cage...or not.

 

[Symbiote]

Wasn't the floor made out of seastone too? Don't really remember.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Nah, only the cage bars. That's why Luffy was fine when he didn't touch them.