I’m Australian and would like to know if there are any other snuff takers here from Australia? When I fist joined this site, just over 2 years ago, I found one but are there others? Australia has such stupid harsh laws on tobacco, snuff was banned from sale in shops here back in 1991, however one can still buy it from overseas (for now). Snuff is the safest way of enjoying tobacco and there is no second hand smoke. Anyway if your in Australia let me know.
I’m from Queensland ausDave, I grow my own native & not so native baccies if your keen for seed.
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lunecat, interesting I started school in 1973.
I’m from Queensland ausDave, I grow my own native & not so native baccies if your keen for seed.
Leaves, thanks for the post. I’ll keep it in mind.
I’m in Sydney ausDave. I wouldn’t say I’m a full time snuffer but lately I’ve been partaking a lot more since snus became an ultra expensive habit.
I’m in Sydney ausDave. I wouldn’t say I’m a full time snuffer but lately I’ve been partaking a lot more since snus became an ultra expensive habit.
Understand where you’re coming from. I’m now a full time snuffer after cigars and pipe tobacco just became far too expensive. I had first tried snuff in about 1982.
Roderick, thanks for the info, sorry I am unable to open that document from my computer. Also, are you in Australia?
Roderick is in the UK ausDave. You may have even bought snuff from him in the course of your snuffing 
If he were to sell snuff in Oz I reckon the going rate for a 10g tin would be around 8 to 10 AUD. I smoke a pipe also and find that it isn’t too bad cost wise when buying pipe tobacco from O/S. Buying it in Aus is a killer.
I live in South Australia. Looking for other Australian snuffers who would be interested in trading snuffs that weren’t, as they say “up to snuff” in their books. I have been buying quite a lot of 9g tap boxes of all sorts trying to find those perfect ones, although of course there are quite a few I wasn’t a huge fan of or couldn’t see myself trying again. All the snuffs I’m willing to trade have been opened once for 2 small pinches then completely taped airtight and kept fresh in the freezer. I’m hoping to find someone within Australia so the costs of postage don’t go through the roof. If you are interested in trading, please don’t hesitate to message me.
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Add me to the list of Aussie snuffers Birko
Awesome, Awesome, lets try and keep this thread active. For our fellow Australians
I am on Sunshine Coast Queensland ,been full time snuffer for a couple of years, bloody annoying haveing to get from UK,don’t always get taxed,but just got done for 100 gms Touqe Original and50 gms Spannish Gem cost me $ 128 absolutely ridiculous .
Suntoucher, yeah I know what you mean, it’d be much easier if they could sell it here in Aus. I was under the impression it was around $320-$450 a kg, although I have friends who have been taxed much more. Fortunately I haven’t been taxed yet, although I believe my luck will run out Ive just made 2 large orders on the same day. We’ll see.
@Roderick In regards to customs stopping an order due to a tax, if you told them you did not want the order would they send it back to you or destroy it? Or would we pay customs the shipping fee to send it back to you?
On a different note. Besides the cost to you and your company it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if they decided to take legal action or if you could put in an injunction of some kind on the constant varying tax. Not only would it bring knowledge and awareness that there is a much safer alternative and a ridiculously easier way to stop smoking, other than the Nicabate patches the government supplies at a ridiculous cost. It would especially let smokers know that snuff tobacco is something that actually exists, even the people working in our specialist stores do not even know what snuff tobacco is. Every smoker I’ve introduced it to has loved the stuff and when I tell them the price they almost fall of their seats.
The issue in Australia is that probably around 95% of the smokers don’t know that it is legal to order tobacco online, and we don’t have the public awareness or the history of snuff use for the vast majority of smokers to know what it is.
I have considered writing to my local MP who has no issue going up against multi conglomerate businesses, a few years ago he went up against the government to try and stop the tax exemption status of scientology and its recognition as a religion, even he knew a lot of our politicians subscribed to scientology beliefs. He has no issue fighting the fight for the people that get the short straw. I would like to know your opinion of this?
Roderick you are doing all of us Aussy snuffers a great service and I’m sure I can speak for all of us when I say we really appreciate it!
As you probably know there’s a huge untapped market here in Aus and all it would take is to give that stone a nudge and it will just cascade from there.
Or do you think it is better the be flying under the radar, so the government doesn’t ban the importation of snuff and/or put a ridiculous tax on the product, either on importation or banning the importation then selling it only in Australia with a very hefty price tag. Any of these wouldn’t really surprise me unless they are legally bound not to. Either way I’d be very interested in knowing your opinion?
@Roderick thanks for your interest ,I will try this next time I order, I was led to believe that if you say you don’t want it they just destroy it. I was tempted to but I really like your snuff. As said above hardly anyone knows what snuff is in this Country, I was introduced to it as a kid buy pipe smoking Grandfather, I think it may of been Hedges or very similar blew my head off,he thought it hilarious at the time,old bugger,but never forgot snuff,so years latter I thought I’d give it a go to stop smoking ciggies it great stuff, just too much choice. Love the stuff.
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@Suntoucher Ok well one of my orders came through without getting stopped, although unfortunately my Toque order was stopped. You either need to pay the tax or the package will be destroyed, you cannot make them send it back. You also cant decide if you want to keep some of it and pay the tax, you either need to pay for it all or it all will be destroyed. Unfortunately it wasn’t worth the money and time to reorder so I decided to pay the $97.35 on 115g of tobacco.
The tax rate in Australia on tobacco products is $763.2 per kg
I hope my other Australian snuffers are luckier than me
Update, the main reasons why I decided to pay the ridiculous tax sum was more of a mathematical decision for me. The main contributing factors where since I’m running low on snuff and have quit cigarettes, I would have to wait two weeks for the next order to arrive. If I went back to cigarettes over those two weeks I would have to pay upwards of $120 to sustain my nicotine habit. I probablly have enough snuff at the moment to last me a little less than a week, and within my toque order along with other products I perchaced a 50g bag of Rustica which is upwards of 3 times the strength, so that would be equivilant to 150g of snuff. I believe my order was around the $70 mark so I would be saving $30 if the replacement came through without being stopped. I would have seriously considered doing this if I wasn’t running low. I have a suspicion that the bulk bag of Rustica may have been the culprit in drawing too many eyes, where the smaller tins could be lollys, chocolate, hair product or anything else that comes in tins those shapes.
If I was well stocked up with snuff I would not have paid the tax on principle, In the scheme of things I am very proud of being able to kick the cigarettes and absolutely do not want to start again, I guess in the end I am alittle pissed at the government but very happy that I will get my order tomorrow, beggars cant be choosers.
@Roderick Yes by all means send it to them, I agree NZ has the right idea and I’m tired of the government increasing tax beyond 70% which is advised by the health administration to reduce cigarette consumption. Beyond 70% tax, studies show that there is no significant difference. At the moment it is at 76.3% and it will only increase from there. When you increase the price on tax beyond this point it is seriously morally unethical for the people in our situation helping the government reduce costs to our health care system by using safer alternatives and it prevents others from following suit.
@Roderick Should I rewrite the message for you leaving out the part about the Rustica catching the eyes of customs where the tins go unnoticed.