run, don't walk, from this idea. nicotine is soluable in water. it's a pH thing. an old fashioned insecticide is tobacco steeped in water - multiple fatalities involved. nicotine is exceedingly readily absorbed thru skin/membranes. it affects the central nervious system and it can easily be lethal - we're talking milligram level amounts. I suppose there's a difference between a tobacco flavor and nicotine poisioning. without expert lab experience / analysis, I do not know how one can extract 'the flavor' without 'the nicotine' - nicotine is easily extracted by polar and non-polar solvents - meaning water, alcohol, ether, .... rafts of 'other'
