This link may have been shared before - some introduction to the state of play 30 years ago - when London still had a proper tobacconist run by a true gentleman … http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/23/garden/snuff-tradition-that-still-persists.html
… I still have one of the glass jars shown in G Smith’s window in this 1960s documentary …
Rare footage of Fribourg & Treyer’s snuff blending cellar and of G. Smith & Son’s shop in Charing Cross Road. Here is the descriptive text from Pathe: A story about snuff. Various shots of a young man dressed in Regency clothes taking snuff from a box. Another one takes some from a horn mull. Various shots as a man examines tobacco leaves and grates them, also we see the snuff being blended from various bottles and test tubes by Mr Bridgeman-Evans [of Fribourg & Treyer] , then it is sieved by Mrs Ling. There are shots as Mr H Albin serves snuff in a shop which also sells snuff handkerchiefs. Mr Vivian Rose [of G. Smith & Sons) and his wife show a selection of snuff boxes. Various shots of people at a party where both men and women take snuff. Shot of man sneezing at the end.
SNUFF SNIFFING SESSION (aka SNUFF MONTH IN OXFORD) - British Pathé
… and there’s some advice on how to take snuff from the great Vivian Rose about 4’20" into this piece (mostly about Wilsons of Sharrow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7YZ9RRLC\_M
Something else found whilst cleaning the Review section. I think these links are already in the Library, but for the benefit of the OP, here you go.