If you ever need proof that humans as a whole can be used by inhuman forms, look no further than the industrialized cigarette.
The wise ones open the box, look inside, and then realize that this isn't the best way of using the thing that is wrapped up inside of it. Excellent way of limiting the pensionable years, in an actuarial sense. The vaping is perhaps worse. I carefully avoid those clouds and scents, particularly hereabouts. The ingredients that are advertised and sought out are bad enough, but essentially spraying an unknown industrialized chemical compound into your lungs is the worst idea you could have, short of injecting it directly into your bloodstream.
Calls to mind the LDS 19th c. prohibition on "hot drinks." Especially at that time, there was no telling what it was that was boiling in the percolator -- as Gurdjieff and others pointed out.
(And any point that Gurdjieff and Brigham Young were both making probably merited attention.)