Your own snuff from cigarette tobacco. Yes/No?

Hello! I saw that many on the forum know how to make their own snuff and share tips. I want to try making my own snuff too! But I have a question. Can I buy loose tobacco (RYO) such as Pepe, Pueblo, Mac Baren Pure Tobacco or pipe tobacco to make snuff? I will be grateful for your advice!

Yes, that is what most of us try the first few times. The Make Your Own thread is filled with these other tobacco products people have tried and what the person who tried it thought of the result.  

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Sorry for failing to reply to your PM, @PrincOstin.

Yes, any additives-free RYO like Pueblo, Raw, American Spirit or Mac Baren are suitable for making snuff. If you favour high nicotine content, I would recommend opting for Pueblo Classic (the one in a yellow pouch), which contains about 3.5% nicotine.

If you are interested in rustica, here we go: https://tabac.ru/catalog/mahorka . It’s a nasty smoke, but great for snuff. There are many different varieties of rustica, tho. Reportedly, some mahorkas out of those available at tobacconists in Russia are not N. rustica at all, but a regular tobacco (lowest grade). I would try them all to find out which ones are actual N. rustica and which are less bitter.

Your best choice though would be whole leaf tobacco (listovoi tabak). This domestic store https://tabakyug.org/price/ carries 7 different tobacco varieties, each of which can be purchased as raw, heat-fermented and fermented in an oaken barrels. I advise trying all 7 in all available forms (i.e. raw and fermented in both ways), 40 g of each; opt for non-cut leaf (bez narezki).

Read all 12 pages of this thread https://snuffhouse.com/discussion/6032/snuff-making-101/p1 ,

then take a look here https://snuffhouse.com/discussion/12151/old-snuff-recipes,

and here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTfVlO6mal6dVhw8jFVMPx5VIW1wWoLyHO3j2zXON\_BzXT5GywSASHmfiOEaoF2nQBsuhqEKSS41c0C/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true ,

watch this video tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIrJlT6W-Q4 ,

also https://snuffhouse.com/discussion/12214/preserving-history-snuffmaking-and-snuff-related-videos/p1,

then download this Russian translation of a German tobacco processing handbook (there’s a whole chapter with snuff recipes): http://smokersmag.com/columns/tobacco/articles/347-growing-and-production-tobacco (substitute wine stone (cream of tartar) with potassium carbonate for better result - it makes snuff stronger!).

Have fun, pal!

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@volunge thank you very much! I will study everything! your answer helped me a lot

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@pennanngalan thank you!

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