I was just daydreaming as I am wont to do from time to time and I began to wonder…‘Am I ready for the day that my personal ‘reserve’ dries up?’ about went into shiver fits. I am not talking about you know, big brother coming to root out my treasures so much as much more likely culprits like, running out of cash, loss of job, changing ‘cultural morays’, natural disaster (think fire or like happend with Hurricane Sandy…flooding), or even worse, what if my MD said those words ‘You have to cut out the snuff if you know whats good for you!!!’. Well, that brought me out of the land of ‘semi-nod’ and made me think… Am I ready??? Are You???
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Reminder to self: Put snuff in hurricane / tsunami kit. I AM ready, but I know I will not be able to satisfactorily fortify my current location. Besides that, getting stuck away from the stash is a real concern. I am prepared with the knowledge of snuff making. With most intricate details ranging from making snuff with used cigarettes (most desperate) to farming / gathering techniques including acceptable plant substitutes. Honestly though doomed is doomed, so knowledge of nicotine withdrawal symptoms and remedies is also quite valuable.
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Ahh, those little jems of wisdom. Simply MUST review old sections on snuff making, storage, tidbits on stretching interspersed with a bit of smoozing from time to time. Then of course there is the “snuff shelter” where I can lock myself to get away from the craziness around me…
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Need…lots of…watertight…containers…
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I am not worried.I have more enough tobacco then I can use in a life time, and add to it often. I just need a extra large fire proof safe or dozen
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Relax. You can’t be prepared for _all_ contingencies so why get all congested?
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Well, I just got 400g of Kailash, so I think I’m prepared…and since I live in an area prone to major earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions, it’s good to be prepared:)
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I like to think I have a decent stash at the moment. One of these days I will inventory and see what I have weight wise but just stopped at a shop and picked up about 3/4lb of various Scotches. Nice thing about them is they age well if stored with the least bit of care.
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I’ve got a goodly sized snuff cache at this point that should hopefully last for awhile. I could loot the tobacco shops and should be able to make a fairly decent snuff if the need arrises, but I guess I could just try to ween myself off with the snuff I already have. Or snuff other things, like coffee… Any excuse to stockpile, though, is good by me!
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Luckily in Montana we really don’t have to worry about flooding but this thread makes ya think. You never can be to safe when it comes to snuff. Looks like I might need to invest in a couple things to be sure. With Montana winters there is always the chance of pipes freezing and busting so it water tight containers are in my future. Oh and stocking up on ammo cuz if the world starts to end in December I need to be sure I can fight off the zombie hordes after my snuff supply. 8-X
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I’m pretty well prepared. I have enough where if I had to start growing my own tobacco I could age my crop for years before I had to make snuff out of it.
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I’ve got about 16 pounds put away. I’m not really thinking lifetime supply because I don’t really intend to use it til the very end. I’ve got just over 90 pounds of pipe tobacco and I have about 8 pounds to go to a projected lifetime supply. You’ll have to pry my pipe from my cold, dead fingers before I give up the pipe.
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I’d say I currently have enough snuff to last me like 20 years and there’s still snuff I need to get. I’m almost out of Dragun and a bunch of other snuff that needs to be restocked soon and there’s a bunch of new snuffs I’ve still got to try, it never ends.
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I have a couple years of snuff in the stash. I have about 2 months of pipe tobacco, if the zombie hordes arrive. ( I figure I’d have to stop at one bowl a day to make it that far.) Snus I have about a month. I do have 2 large jars of Dragun sitting very close to my bug out bag. I’m in Ohio so the odds of something happening that forces me to leave my stash for more than a few days are quite slim. Anything that forces me to leave for longer than that will likely mean nicotine will be low on my priorities list.
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I reckon I have 2+years supply. If push comes to shove I’ll be down to the big-ass can of Bruton I bought in NC a while back. That’s a good three to four months right there. Feels kinda nice, now I think about it. With cigs I rarely had more than a day or two’s supply.
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Recent talk by EU officials about a blanket ban on smokeless tobacco has made me a bit jittery, so I have stepped up my snuff cellaring. I am at 7.5 kilos now and am aiming for 20 kilos eventually. I reckon that would set me up for life. I smoke a pipe too, but I don’t think smoking tobacco is going anywhere for the moment. My pipe tobacco cellar isn’t much to look at, in any case!
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Hopefully the EU will collapse before they even attempt to ban snuff. Even if they did manage to do that then presumably here in the UK we would still be able to get it direct from - in no particular order - SG, GH, Toque, WoS, JH Wilsons and Abraxas. If necessary I would take a weeks holiday in Kendal, Sharrow and Berwick and do some very serious stocking up. I don’t think it is anything to seriously worry about although a weeks holiday in Kendal would be good anyway. I was planning on going earlier this year but just didn’t have time to fit it in. Hopefully next year.
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@chris Well no, if they ban it then snuff would become illegal in the UK, since UK is a member state of the EU. Unless of course the UK decides to push back on the legislation in question. However, it hasn’t done that yet on any piece of anti-tobacco legislation. In fact, policies like the smoking ban and covered tobacco displays have been implemented in the UK well in advance of other EU member states. I am not trying to scare-monger, and I very much hope you are right, but the odds of a British government (of any political party) risking its EU membership over a tobacco control policy seem highly unlikely to me. So go on that holiday to Kendal :)>-
I doubt the British government will sit back and allow the EU to force 300 year old British companies out of business
@barredbenny Sorry I misunderstood you. I thought the ban you referred to was to prevent sales over the internet as opposed to banning it completely. If they are trying for a complete ban then I can only hope that @n9inchnails is correct. We are talking about some very historic companies so one could only hope that the government would show a bit of backbone. Having said that I have seen photos of Samuel Gawith’s pipe tobacco production lines and it looks like they only employ a few people so I presume the other companies are the same. On that basis the government would not be bothered about the employment issues. But given that the government does not tax snuff - on the basis of advice from health “experts” who confirm that it is basically harmless compared to other forms of tobacco use - they would have a hard job arguing the basis of any ban. The whole thing is just pressure from large pharmaceutical companies who want to push expensive patches, etc rather than have people get off cigs by using very cheap snuff. I would hope all the snuff manufacturers would get together and lobby the government on the basis of it being a very cheap and harmless form of nicotine replacement therapy. I would certainly put some serious pressure on my local MP.