This one’s only tangentially related to electronic cigarettes, but it was so strange I thought it was worth linking to. The New Times down in Palm Beach profiles a swindler who started an electronic cigarette business:

In late March, at the Blue Martini Lounge on Glades Road in Boca Raton, Gladstone encountered a big-talking, cocktail-swilling business man, sporting a Star of David tattoo on his neck and taking drags off an electronic cigarette.
Gladstone had known Howard Needle before — socially, not in the business world, and he knew nothing of Needle’s criminal past. It so happened that Gladstone had a friend, Jaet, who had also switched to electronic cigarettes, which satisfied the craving without nearly the health effects. Gladstone had some money to invest. A mutual friend vouched for Needle’s sales skills and Jaet could be a marketer.

Apparently he also ran a scam on the owner of Crown7 cigarettes, who talked to the paper in a followup piece.

Got Needle. Need Haystack.