I’ve been snuffing quite a bit lately, which for me is everyday about 5 to 6 times in between my morning pipe and afternoon pipe. I’ve noticed more blood on the tissue when blowing. Is this pretty common when someone begins snuffing on a more regular basis?

I’ve never had a bloody nose from snuff. Blowing my nose to hard has caused a few spots of blood to be found though. I had a hard time learning to blow (my nose) softly. Possibly this is your cause.

If you blow your nose too hard then its possible that small capillaries in the lining of your nose will pop occasionally.

Thanks for your replies. I’ll ease up on how hard I blow and see if that corrects it?

I get it every so often, as you say just try to lessen the pressure and it’ll clear up.

I get it every so often, as you say just try to lessen the pressure and it’ll clear up.

I’m also thinking it may be that I’ve been taking a lot of SG KB Special. I really like it, but it seems a little coarse to take as an all day. I’ll ease up on the coarser stuff. In fact, I’ve just recently discovered a new all day mixture that I like and it’s finely ground. This, combined with easing up on blowing should take care of the problem. Thanks again.

While it is likely nothing much, pay close attention in the event you have developed a sore or lesion. From what you wrote it sounds more like spotting - little traces versus a true bloody nose one may get after a good bashing. If taken properly snuff should not be going into the sinus where it can irritate and could cause a lesion as well. Years back I was taking it in too deeply and perhaps in too much quantity. I had the occasional spotting of blood when I blew my nose- while I assume it was linked to too deep and too much, in reality it could have been something completely unrelated.

I have had a small amount of bleeding a couple of times, especially when the weather’s really dry. One time I took a pinch of Willie Pete way too far back and it hurt like nothing else and my nose was clogged as could be for days. Instead of stopping snuff I kept taking tons of white snuff as it would open my nose for a second and I really liked the feeling of relief. I dunno I must have irritated the hell out of it, the congestion got so bad that I just quit taking snuff for a few days and I was blowing my nose a lot like my nose was flushing itself out and there was a small amount of blood. Also I gave a buddy some Dholakia White, told him to be careful as hell but of course he snorted it like he was Tony Montana, his nose started bleeding and it was really funny.

No blood to report and I had a power session last night with a number of different snuffs. I do think it has something to do with the grind and technique, at least for me. I find that when I use the technique that horus92 suggested when I first started, which is to yawn and mouth breath finer snuffs into just the front of the nostril I have good luck. I’ve been playing around with the stuffing technique for coarser snuffs, but still find that as long as I lightly sniff versus short snort; I don’t have any issues. There’s definitely a learning curve as well as personal preference thing to taking snuff. This forum is a life saver and a wealth of knowledge. Thanks for everyone’s feedback. It helps a novice like myself figure things out without killing my nose and sinuses.