Just curious . . . nasal snuff use is a rare thing to see in the general public these days. How many of us are low-profile snuffers (I do it, but I don’t want to have to explain it)? How many are open snuffers (look at me world! I’m snuffing, and you should too!)?

I snuff openly but not ostentatiously, I turn to the side. I usually use white snuffs in public as they give me less drip and it doesn’t look like I have anything in my nose and they wipe off of your face without smearing. I was using a tap-box at a bar and I think people thought I was doing coke, got some looks, but nobody said anything so whatever.

As with @horus92 I snuff openly but don’t make a performance out of it. I may get some people staring, and I am happy to answer any questions they have, but we shouldn’t have to feel afraid or ashamed. If anything, I feel eccentric.

I am quite happy to take a pinch in public. I’ve never had any comments, a few funny looks but I don’t mind that.

I could careless what people think. I use snuff where ever and when ever I want. I don’t put on a show in fact if someone looks at me sideways I just smile and offer them some

I never hide my snuffing and haven’t run into any problems.

im quite open. recently got asked to leave a taxi though… for snus. god knows what he wouldve done had i used snuff. some people are so closed minded. not sure what he thought it was…

@Firestarter0 that sucks man, didn’t you also get in trouble with a cop? You have bad luck with the mundanes!

@horus92 no, he just told me to get out, threatened cops if i didnt (i was trying to explain). ah well, his loss, i was putting it in because we were nearly at destination. only added 15 mins on my journey. to be honest he had the aggression of a coke fiend, so maybe he was nervous haha.

I am very open about it. I find it’s a good ice breaker though. I’ve also been told that I was pretty tough for my habit. It feels nice to talk to people about it. I haven’t actually talked to anyone who has had a problem with it yet. We’ll see if my opinion changes when/if it happens.

I was bringing a pinch of Toque Lime Toast (Yummm!) to my nose while on a plane, and the flight attendant informed me that “dipping” was not permitted on the aircraft. I was about to protest, but I decided not to make a show of it and simply take a pinch when nobody was looking.

I snuff openly, but I usually only use tap box schmalzers in public. They are convenient, LABELED(which is important just in case), and if anyone wants to try it as a beginner it should be no problem. My go to is Gletzcher Prise. As soon as I get home and/or settled at a friend’s, I go British snuff crazy.

@JohnnyFriday i think you misunderstand ‘schmalzer’. Gletscher Prise is just an oiled snuff.

When I feel like a pinch of snuff I take it wherever I am. I don’t make it obvious but I certainly do not hide it. But I do use coarse, dark snuffs so no one is likely to mistake it for anything dodgy.

I guess I was going on the “schmaltz” being an oil, and the snuff is oiled(and German). I never cared to go beyond that definition.

I flaunt it with pride.

The town I dwell in, noone would give it a 2nd thought…

When I’m out in public, unless I’m in a darken theater, I place the snuff on the back of my hand so that people won’t think I’m picking my nose, but no I don’t try to hide it

Clandestine. Even when I try and talk about it, I get dirty looks. (california and chicago)

It seems the only people I’ve run across that seem to have a problem with open snuffing are heavy marijuana smokers who worry about the “safety” of snuff, lol. And on the other end of the spectrum hardcore anti-tobacco activist types that refuse to believe my face is not going to rot from cancer in the next 5 mins. and claim that the “billion dollar snuff industry” is hiding cancer study data to the contrary. Most people don’t even seem to notice even if I’m pretty openly snuffing.

I love arguing with fanatical anti tobacco loons on twitter about snuff. It’s a morbid hobby of mine They really hate facts.

Well . . . guess I should just do it out in the open and see what happens. I think mostly only people I know would ask questions.

I’m somewhere in between. I don’t snuff as heavily in public, but I do like to make a game of it sometimes and have a pinch in class while the teacher isn’t looking. I started that in HS (as an 18 going on 19 year old senior) and have kept at it in college. You never know who might be a tobacco nazi (though odds are there’s a few around any educational facility).

I’m not blatant … but not covert either. I am a little self conscious of it, and what others may mistake it for, but I don’t try to hide it or look around to see who’s watching. I always tap the box, open casually, pinch, and close the box … from that point onwards it doesn’t look like anything too dubious. Sniff from the pinch, grab the hanky and wipe, and the chances are there’s hardly anyone noticed you … or if they did they probably thought you were bogie hunting :))

I do it secretly and have no interest in being watched, even though it is all quite legal. But on balance, I would be more concerned about what the public would think of my views of religion. In the wrong places I would be hung for sure.

@fredhanna I agree about the religion bit, but I don’t much mind snuffing openly. I do it at work pretty regularly, and if this winter will be as cold as I think I’ll probably have to start bringing more to share. I figure people should realize its nothing illegal once I reach for the handkerchief, nobody wastes coke wiping it away.

I’m in the pub now and have just shoved a load of Toque Quit up my snozzer, even after a sneezing fit where my snus shot across the pub and stuck to the far wall, no one batted an eyelid…

=))

I don’t care anymore. Had to attend a court appointed driving class recently for 8 hours. I was taking a pinch every 15 minutes or so and nobody said a word, though a few teenagers gave me a weird look.

I am definately an open snuffer! Although I have never tried white snuffs, I would probably draw the line at openly sniffing them… I’ve had enough problems with ignorant law enforcement people when I am using dark snuff – thank you very much!

Open snuffer, anywhere and everywhere within reason, never had any problems. I think if you are secret about it, it makes YOU feel like you are doing something wrong.

Last I snuffed on a bus I noticed a woman to my left taking notice, she seemed skeptical, but I noticed how my relaxed nature about it and how the use of a handkerchief to elegantly brush my nose after the sniff eased her stare. I guess it’s all about how you compose yourself through the procedure, being natural about it, using a branded tin/tapbox… and coke heads dont pinch and they dont use handkerchiefs, lol!