Indian Snuffs

Great find Tom! I’ve been meaning to check out the local Indian market myself (Snuffy, as I’m not too far from you, I’ll post the names and addresses if I find anything). I was told by some Indians of two places to look, but they didn’t use snuff or Indian tobaccos themselves so they couldn’t be sure. I had heard of 5 Photo before. Tom, I imagine you have some good bargaining chips for trades now!

Pieter - interesting web site indiasnuff - but what nonsense you may read there: “Many European countries are promoting snuff in order to help people to shift from smoking to snuff-taking.” The situation is the EXACT opposite! Sweden can’t export to EU countries - Germany can’t export to EU countries. Snuff is not sold in several countries, including Denmark. Norway has a fair supply - but they are not in the EU! I have conducted a long correspondence with health organizations in Denmark advising to the Government - and all I ever heard was politically correct nonsense founded in total ignorance about snuff. They didn’t even know the difference between snus and snuff, and kept refering to research in chewing tobacco!!! Well, I just wrote to the Indian web site and asked them where on earth they got THAT idea from?

Now it seems that may be the actual case in New Zealand.

Apparently dip has overshadowed all forms of non-cigarrette tobacco to the extent that nobody in the medical or legal professions understands what snuff or snus are. Because of the bad reputation of dip for causing oral cancers (and I have no idea if that is even true, that is just the reputation!) they are painting snus and snuff with the same brush. I haven’t seen anyone point a finger directly at snus for a cancer link and certainly not snuff. If the accusations about dip are true I wonder why snus and dip seem to have different effects. Why is snus thought to be relatively harmless and dip accused of being so dangerous?

Snus is made in a totally different way, that’s why, and why you can swallow the juice, and you can’t with dip.

If that makes it safer then why don’t they change the way they make dip?

Hey thanks for posting this. Very interesting! Now I want to look for some Indian markets too. That would be cool to find some exotic snuffs.

Snuffbox- we should move this to the snus thread. But I know many people don’t like snus, and like dip. It is different.

fine by me!

The issue I have with these ‘unknown finds’ is that who knows WHAT is in the container, and therefore going up the nose. Third-world countries are not know for there adherence to quality control,or food and drug, standards and regulation, as recent problems with Chinese products support. I would trust ‘name brands’ such as Dholakia to be on par with European and Western standards, but these others I would be suspicious of. But, assuming tom502 has not yet expired since inhaling THESE snuffs, we can at the least presume that they don’t contain cyanide.

Well, if you read the Photo 5 Snuff website, which is were the awesomely great Himalaya Snuff is manufactured by, it’s been around a long time, and I would believe their quality control. I trust these snuffs fully. They are all very well made in my opinion. Now, I don’t think Dholakia is any “better”, they just use a more western package, to appeal to westerners more. But what’s in that package is what counts. If the Photo 5 Snuff site is correct, they have been arround since 1915, and the Himalayan Snuff is the most popular in India(and with good reason). And this store I went to, did not have any Dholakia. I think Dholakia just found a way to enter the western market, and went with it. And I do like their snuffs a whole lot myself.

This Himalaya Snuff is the best snuff I ever had.

well Tom, greetings from India! good research done on Indian snuff congratulation. have any idea about their manufacturing unit?did u check their snuff pack?..on that you will c PACKED BY…keturamram…hope you understood what i am trying to say…they are not manufcturer but just pack and market all their brands. any ways we are always with our Indian snuff suppliers…if you Love/like… any indian snuff…no matters what ever the brand is ,what matters to us is IT IS MADE IN INDIA.keep sniffing …cheers.bye

Hi Namrata, Thanks. I think I see what you mean, that they are the “distrubuter”? Anyway, I do like these new ones I picked in this thread alot, esp the Himalaya Snuff. I also continue to love Dholakia snuffs.

Tom, when you go back to that Indian shop will you do me a favour please? Ask them whether they stock any Viagra type snuff. I’m pretty sure they have managed to produce something like that already.

Well, I asked the guy for snuffs, and he said these 3 are the only ones he had. If you can find a specific Indian product, I’ll ask them next time.

thanks Tom!

I remember when I was a Gaudiya Vaisnava Bramacharya, I found this can of Tooth Powder, that was made of fish scales in a locker at the Sri Sri Radha Chandra Mandir, where I stayed at New Vrindaban Dham where I stayed. It was a very coarse black powder that was rubbed on the teeth, it did a good job, I wonder if this shop has that.

I had some of that toothpowder (not that exact one but something like it) from India. It is excellent! Much better than nasty chemical toothpaste, although spitting black suds after brushing your teeth DOES make your sink look unattractive!

Doh! I tried to post a review(my 1st) for Snuff Reviews website. I used the “add an item” under the “other” catagory, and in the description line, I updated my review that I posted earlier here, and hit submit, but then I noticed it says not to post a review here, so I don’t know what will happen. I don’t want to write it all again.