Not that I'd ever have seen such a thing, or even heard about it (of course), but might there be some way to set it up in the manner of a ::ahem:: bong? Such that the smoke went through the water before it went into the ceramic cooker? Dunno how one would create a draw, though, to get the smoke to go where one wanted.
Perhaps an exhaust fan in a closed tube, with one end of the tube above the water, other end in the ceramic cooker, to draw the smoke out of the burner, through the water, and push it into the ceramic cooker?
Somewhat different from a Bic and a mayo jar, I grant you... But the principle is about the same.