Why do we consider smoking to be masculine or manly?
when it's the other way around, you need the drug to function normally, and when you don't have it, how strong do you think your mind will be.
(remember the Fallcon's motto)
And so far we are only talking about influences on the brain, how about adding the nervous system or blood circulation,
I guess we already know where I'm going, exactly, even your dick won't thank you.

Ah yes the malboro cowboy, the icon of 20th century malboro marketing, a symbol of masculinity, toughness, freedom and independence (dependently independent, amusingly paradoxical isn't it?).
Most of them died of smoking related illnesses, advertisement for death wrapped in the romance of the wild west.
Just not to be unfair, these cowboys were used to promote filtered cigarettes to men, which at the time were mostly for women hence the orange stripe, because of the lipstick, and were a “healthier” option at the time.

But today it is similar between vape and cigarettes, vaping is less harmful but still harmful, mostly through marketing, beautiful colours, different fruit flavours, no disgusting pictures on the packaging like on cigaretes.
And then we wonder why kids start vaping in 5th grade (end of Elementary), and by the end of ninth grade (end of secondary), they're into cigarettes at best, or into nicotine pouches at worst.
Then we see kids disassembling their own vapes and charging batteries with a stripped usb cable, burning off the cotton that is already less saturated and breaking down the E liquid and making it more harmful and risking an explosion of battery in their bedroom. (LiPos are angry and explosive when not charged properly)

We could also go into ecology, cigarette butt is the most common waste in nature, chewed up nicotine sacks sticked on the walls or under tables, and then there are the disposable vapes, there is not much, just a vacuum switch wire and a battery.
Unfortunately, we have the problem of the battery, of which we only recycle 50-70%.
Copper, aluminum, cobalt, nickel, 70% of the world's cobalt production comes from Congo (DRC) where they are manually mining.

The demand for batteries is enormous, it creates a pressure that causes human rights to be overlooked, so it is common that children work in these mines, without protection and for laughable prices, instead of going to school.

Such simple stuff, right?, and yet it can be expanded.

Sigh, unfortunately, I wanted to make a funny ending, but English doesn't allow it. I wanted to make a simple double entendre with smoking, considering that in Czech 'smoking' is also used for sucking cock, but too bad. :(