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Cigarettes Have Chometz!

Several years ago the RJ Reynolds Company was forced by the US Congress to disclose all of the additives that it puts into cigarettes. There are over 500! These additives are put in to give each brand its distinctive taste, so they are all significant — or at least are so considered by the company.

In his Pesach bulletin this year and last, Rabbi Blumenkrantz lists at least four ingredients that are chometz: 1] wheat extract and flour; 2] trimethylpyrazine (from barley); 3] tetramethylpyrazine (from wheat); 4] levuline acid (wheat bread).

There may be more such ingredients. The subject is being further researched. HaRav Moshe Shternbuch wrote in his Teshuvos Vehanhogos (Orach Chaim) that cigarettes have chometz and should not be used on Pesach. HaRav Yehuda Arye Dunner also gave out a letter saying that HaRav Nissim Karelitz said that in addition to the possible issur to smoke throughout the year, there is the additional issur of getting benefit from chometz on Pesach from smoking.

 

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