In this crucial essay 1 on the subject, Kyabjé Düd'jom Rinpoche Jig'drèl Yeshé Dorje. explains the non-ordinary visionary history which illuminates the deleterious nature of these poisonous substances, according to gTérma revelations. To help Vajrayana practitioners understand the danger of smoking, Kyabjé Düd'jom Rinpoche collected major salient pronouncements of Padmasambhava concerning tobacco and narcotics for those who regard these sacred revelations as their refuge. Warnings about tobacco and narcotics have been revealed as gTérmas since early on in Tibet, by the great gTértöns, and so no authentic Nyingma practitioner need assume that what is presented here is not applicable to them. Warnings about tobacco and narcotics actually cross the spectrum of Vajrayana lineages, and advice on the subject is voluminous... The visionary accounts presented here deal with demonic intentionality, and ideas such as these may be ‘difficult' for some people who are new to the practice of..