my question is Sixty milligrams of nicotine (the amount in about 30-40 cigarettes has the potential to kill an adult who is not a smoker if all of the nicotine were absorbed. So to I’m guessing one pinch of snuff delivers about 1mg of nicotine (is this right)? ? So If I am to overdose on nicotine completely we would need to take 60 pinces in one go ?? Is that right ? I’m asking as a few new people here are saying about being worried about taking to much snuff as they don’t want to overdose So hope this topic helps if anyone could answer my question …
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joe
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bob
oh snuff overdoses are mainly just uncomfortable. Like room spins for a few minutes you may get sick and will have a general feeling of wrongness (dysphoria). people aren’t too worried about killing themselves with snuff. If you wanted to kill yourselves with tobacco don’t forget the fourty pouches of snus in the rectum guy.
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Brandasaur
The only time you ever overdose is when taking big pinches within a few mins of each other or having a load of snuff paired with snus, cig whatever and even then its just a big head rush. You would have to totally fill your nose to get an overdose that would effect your health like vomiting or headache.
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joe
Thankyou Bob and brandasaur great info !! ! I always wondered what the o/d point of snuff was … I guess we should think of it like cigarettes as we never question or think about ODing on cigarettes !!!
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bob
yup probably harder to do on snuff.
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doctorbeat
I think the main point is the ‘if all the nicotine is absorbed’ part. I know that with cigarettes, we only absorb a fraction of the actual nicotine in the tobacco. This is why they use those weird tests with smoking machines instead of just extracting and measuring the nicotine content of the tobacco. I imagine snuff is similar- a lot of the nicotine is probably lost in the stuff we blow out of our noses.
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joe
Yes I was thinking that myself, All of the nicotine of a 25 gram Tin would need to be absorbed at once to o/d prop on snuff …I guess like smoking 60 cigs in one breath lol !
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joe
2x posts all the time ?? Sorry must be my iPhone admin