E-Cigarettes

Google and you will find a blog post I wrote about this.

i don’t know if the juice requires a hechsher or not but i do know that all the parts to make your own flavor are avail with a hechsher except the nicotine and menthol crystals. as far as effectiveness, in my experience using it and seeing my friends use it, its a mental commitment that you are no longer smoking cigarettes and even with that commitment the second you don’t have it like on holidays and passover most guys run straight back to the real thing. its good because when u use it ur not actually smoking but bad because you use it much more increasing you nicotine intake and is not really effective in helping one quit

Just smoke the regular stuff. If you wanna stop, then just stop.

They don’t and @LevAryeh Hookah is better

Likud –

The cRc is probably being machmir because they did not consider or do not agree with my point of the juice not being ???? ??????.

Also, I am less reluctant to rely on somewhat of a creative kula since – a) I follow a school of thought that holds the “kashrus sensitive ingredients” they are talking about are kosher anyway; and what is perhaps more relevant – b) at the end of the day, being concerned about Tosafos’s opinion is only a chumra; it is not the ikkar hadin.

It would seem from the cRc’s alert that they would have an issue with all types of e-cigarettes. Regular cigarettes are different, a) because “kosher sensitive ingredients” are much more rare; and b) because I’ve heard people ascribe to a line of reasoning that says that smoke from a non-kosher item is permitted to ingest even if vapor isn’t. I mentioned the basis for this in footnote 9 in the blog post.