@ar47 I m fairly sure I remember this correctly . When I was a lad in the '70s and early eighties , there was still a residual snuff culture locally . Virtually every newsagent carried a bit of snuff …and it sold too .
A commercial traveller used to service the local old style fancy tobacconist with the Sam Gawiths and GH . While he was there he would serve up the local newsagents with tins and tapbox forerunners .
SG Cola(I believe) was only available loose from a jar in the posh tobacconists and it was like the holy grail for the 11/12 year old me . He wouldn’t sell me tobacco of any kind unless it was pipe stuff for my dad . I used to snuff a bit if I couldn’t afford a smoke . A dusty tin of Wilsons could be had for like 11 pence from the high street newsagent whereas 10 cigarettes was around 50pence . I was a poor kid but I could usually rustle up 15p for a snuff 
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I tried allsorts of ruses to get hold of that cola snuff . :D Despairing , one day I plucked up the courage to ask for 20 pence worth when I was picking up my fathers Clan . No dice : he even told my Dad , the bastard I don’t think I ever got to even try it as a kid and always regretted it . By the time I was 16 , that old place had long gone and loose snuff was an oddity.
When I discovered online snuff buying a couple of years ago virtually the first things I bought were all the cola snuffs .