Who, beside me, discovered snuff BEFORE they went to an online snuff site/message board?
I actually did, as a kid! I was a real shoplifter as a teenager and I stole a can of scotch (presumably) from the drug store. I remember trying a huge pile off my hand and it practically blew my head off. I never touched it again until I started using it in 2008. I figure that was roughly 35 years ago!
I did. I encountered snuff first time in a German tobacco-shop with my friend who knew something about it.
I did. Saw it on the counter of a small tobacco shop in Rotterdam. Pöschl boxes. “We already sell them for 40 years”!
Me, a long time ago
I was motivated to try snuff after managing to head a post-divorce smoking relapse off at the pass (via vaping), and most especially after seeing the “Uxbridge/Ponsonby snuff moment” in the film, Waterloo.
I tried snuff for the first time about 15 years ago, when a friend brought some over to a party. It may have been Gletscherprise, it was definitely Poschl. I totally snorted it, not having anyone to advise me that it isn’t taken into the nose the same way as, well, some other things. I definitely remember enjoying it anyway, but that was the only time I’d had any until I started actively looking for alternatives to cigarettes.
I did…sort of. When I started pipe smoking, a little better than decade ago, the B&Ms still carried a wide variety of snuffs. I bought two tins (I don’t even remember what they were), and HATED IT (looking back, I’m 100% sure it’s because of lousy technique and a only a VERY rudimentary appreciation for the glory that is tobacco). I discovered that I ENJOYED snuff and actually took an active interest in the hobby due to the natural crossover threads that pop up on all of the pipe forums.
Snuff played a prominent role on a crappy animated adaptation of the Gulliver’s Travels I use to like when I was a child, where one of the characters used to pinch enormous quantities from a snuffbox, then sneezing loudly. I discovered ACTUAL snuff when the tobacconist nearest to my faculty bought a 10 tins pack of Gawith Apricot. When I saw it behind the glass of the apothecary wardrobe they use to show their merchandise, I couldn’t believe my eyes: “So, this is the fabled snuff of so many movies and books, eh? It IS still being made”. I purchased a tin, not knowing that there was such a rich world awaiting me. The next step was to find out if they were producing more brands, and where could they be purchased. That was the moment when I found the forums and what not, with my nostrils already full of snuff.
I grew up in an area w/a lot of grain elevators, many of the old guys (including my uncle) that worked around them snuffed American Scotches while they worked, due to the danger from potential explosion a cigarette or pipe would present.
1967, head shop in Boston
Had some in Bavaria when I was in 6th grade, then several years ago tried making my own from RYO tobacco, cigar tobacco, and Tambolaka from Indonesia about a year or two before I came across some in a tobacconist. Only after that I found Mr. Snuff and Snuffhouse.
Long time Grandfather hooked me up in the 50s .
I picked up some tube rose from a food lion on a whim a few months ago after becoming obsessed with trying to figure out what the hell happened to this nasal snuff thing I had vaguely heard someone talking about a few years back. I was so amazed by how delicious and powerful it was that $300 something dollars spent on mrsnuff.com and a whole hell of a lot of googling and youtube video watching later, here I am typing out this reply right now, a snuff enthusiast through and through.
I first took snuff while I was still at school, several years before the invention of the World Wide Web…
I did and I didn’t. Whilst ordering another batch of pipe tobacco I figured I’d like to try a few other tobacco outlets. Stuck an order for some snuff and Oliver twist chewing bits (wasn’t impressed in the slightest) online and was engulfed! I had however read a little on snuff and I think I’d come across this forum once or twice but never registered till I was fully into it
Purchased Poschl Packard’s Club at The Bell Pipe Shop in Missoula Montana, I think in August of 2000. Loved it at the time. Evolution is a funny thing because it was not very long until I found more and more options, eventually leading to an internet search, and voila, here I am ~2 1/2 years later (after finding Snuffhouse and Mr. Snuff).
Me, I found a small display of Gawith Apricot in a tobacconist when I was purchasing some shisha stuff for my father, asked to the tobacconist how much it costed expecting that she would say an exhorbitated amount… “0´95 €” she said, bought it instantly and ten minutes later I blew my head snorting that menthol bomb, only when i searched more information online (about a month later) I found this beautiful forum.
My first try with snuff was the late 90’s when I picked up one of the big amber glass Levi bottles from my local smoke shop. It was not a great experience to say the least so I didn’t try again till the summer of 2012 when I stopped smoking cigs. Had all this info been around when I first tried it I probably would of figured out my technique was the problem not the snuff.
Had a cold one day, and got a tip from a friend that a nearby kiosk had “a remedy” - turns out it was nasal snuff. I remember the brand, Maya, but it was by no means medicated. Just plain snuff, if my memory serves. And overpriced as hell. £3 for a 5g twist-tin. At the time it kicked my nose-balls, since I snorted rather than sniffed. I should go buy some more, see how it (with proper sniffing!) compares to the “real deal”-snuffs.
Yep, me, found a tin of WoS my Dad had in his tool drawer when I was about 12 or 13. Came back to it properly aged 18/19
Yes, about 25 years ago and once or twice in between. I was up to experimenting a little and bought a tin, actually a cardboard container, of WE Garrett Scotch(?) snuff. I had no idea what I was doing but liked it anyway. I bought a couple of other types of flavored snuff in small plastic containers with small openings that you could tap the snuff out of. It never caught on until lately. I’ve been smoking pipes again but gave up about two years ago and now it’s on to something else. Snuff. Looking forward to experiencing what’s out there.
Had all this info been around when I first tried it I probably would of figured out my technique was the problem not the snuff.
A girl who used to work with me said she and her boyfriend were trying snuff (they both smoke) but she was finding it ‘hard to get used to the headache’. I explained whereanouts it’s supposed to sit in the nose and things got better for them after that, lol… About forty years ago, when I was a teenager, thanks to the little blue boxes at the bottom of the cigs display in newsagents. I’ve never smoked, or had the urge, but they aroused my curiosity, so I started out with J&H Wilson’s SP, Medicated no.99, and Top Mill, which was my favourite of the three. Drifted kn and out of it over the years til I discovered Snuffstore a few years ago, and then this palace of wonder.
I was introduced to snuff by my Grandad. He occasionally took it, but very rarely. I was staying at my grandparent’s house one weekend, and I had a terrible cold. My grandad marched me to the corner shop, and bought me a can of Snuffy Weiss He also bought some Hedge’s for himself, and I remember watching him take it. Needless to say, I hated the Snuffy, but I remembered snuff because of that incident, and when I was around 18, bought some Hedge’s and dared my friends to try it. Once I discovered that you could get non-menthol snuff, I became an occasional snuffer. And yes, my mom was REALLY mad at my grandad for buying me snuff, even though it was tobacco-free I think I still have the white Snuffy container somewhere back at my mom’s house in England. I’ll have to see if she can find it and send it to me.
A work colleague - many, many years ago - took snuff and let me try some. I thoroughly enjoyed it and made various purchases from Fribourg & Treyer in the Haymarket which demonstrates how long ago that was! Unfortunately I very stupidly decided that it did not really fit with my lifestyle, and too many people thought I was doing drugs, so I reverted to cigarettes and cigars. Had I dropped those and just carried on with the snuff I would have saved a small fortune over the years with the added benefit of none of the dangers associated with smoking. Thankfully I finally ditched the cigs over eight years ago but kept on with cigars and pipes. Then a couple of years ago I suddenly felt the urge to revisit snuff and discovered that a local “head” type shop had a small selection of real snuff including some Toques that were surprisingly - given the nature of the shop - in good condition. About the same time I discovered and joined this forum, found Mr Snuff and other online retailers, and - following all the great advice here - I began to explore the wonderful range of snuff out there.
I discovered it a little over a year ago during Army Medical AIT. I was in the holdover platoon, waiting to get a new MOS. Another guy who was transferring over to 11b (infantry) had Silver Dollar Raspberry and offered to me. I happily took a bump (and snorted it HARD) but loved it even though it burned like the dickens. Fast-forward to 2015 and I am happily enjoying snuff, and probably won’t slow down anytime soon.
I little bit off-topic, but actually how old is this community? How old is Snuffhouse? I couldn’t find.
I tasted my first snuff before i even knew about the internet.
@SkeG November 2006 8 years and 2 months.
First tried nasal snuff in 1980 in the pipes and tobacco shop that employed me as a young man in Ohio. There was no online or offline back then. My favorite back then was the most expensive snuff in the world–Count Murari. It is long discontinued.
My father’s girlfriend gave him a horn filled with snuff when I was a kid, and he let me try it. But I forgot all about it until I was encouraged to try it on a pipe forum, 40 years later.