How to convert the masses? That is the question. This is how I have brought it up. I am in school for a second career in law as a paralegal. Most of my classmates are female. It is against the rules to use tobacco on the campus. I give a finger to them and dip and snuff openly. I have read the rules and have many legal loopholes to take advantage of if ever taken to task about it. When my classmates have wanted to have a smoke I offered them some stuff. The response is mixed some say sure and one said no way that’s got to be illegal. I only offer vary mild things like afterglow, taxi rock or bernard 275. What are your experiences?

Usually the same old things; what is it, what does it do for you, is it legal and the one I love best - its more dangerous than cigarettes you know. I do get quite a lot try it and have even given a couple of cans away to guys in my office. I was in a bar the other week and the two guys I was with, after a few drinks, ended up asking for pinches all night long. Ive never had a female try any.

anyway, the medical benefits of lots of people switching to snuff would be huge.

Most people I know think i’m mad using snuff. They seem to associate it with negative things such as drug use. The very idea of sniffing it up their nose tends to freak them out…sad but true

I find explaining the way everything smells so nice really hooks some people into trying it. One day at work the compactor was extra nasty I got a few non tobacco users to try a sniff just to handle the orodious evil that day.

Lazarus, I know what you mean. Most people are like that. I keep trying to get my smoking buddies to just TRY it, and they look at me like - I’m Mad. lol On the other hand I was at a jam a few weeks ago, and this dude was there, I’ve seen him before he always bums smokes from people, a real heavy smoker. I offered him some snuff, expecting the usual looks and comments, but he said “snuff?” and held out the back of his hand. He said that, many years ago, he used to work at a shop that sold snuff, and he used it back then. I had some Tom Buck and some Dholakia Swiss choc. He liked the Dholakia very much, and claimed he felt the nicotine real good. Although he sneezed 'til he wheezed. lol.

I’m actually finding that more and more people I know in the pub(s) are willing to give snuff a try these days, including a 69 year old lady who had never tried it in her life until Saturday evening. She did seem to enjoy the JR Justice. It might help that my local has a snuff box on the bar of course!

Yes, I use the same pub as ermtony and one never feels out of place taking snuff in there. Last Friday there where two couples that I had never seen in the bar before, they showed interest in my snuffs. Funny the two women seemed to take to it more then their men.

I’ve gotten two (smoker) friends to try it. They both liked it but I don’t think they will ever switch. It’s too hard to get here in Florida and they don’t have the time i have to research it, order online etc. Being in Miami, even I hide my snuff taking in public. It seems so dumb, since it’s legal. I use an aluminum bullet and people would think i was crazy if i started snuffing at a bar. I would probably end up explaining to the police, no fun after a couple beers. EVERYONE I’ve mentioned it to thinks I’m crazy and has never heard about it.

Thanks ya’ll for all your input. Keep up the good work.

Hehe, yeah. I’ve been using the swedish variety of tobacco for a while. A friend of mine and his brother seem to enjoy that, and they seemed pretty interested in trying the snuff once it gets here. A few other people have been interested by the other product as well. The few times that I have used snuff in this area, I get a few odd looks. That’s about it, though. No cops, lol.

As I think about it, someone will probably make a fortune with a bar top snuff vending machine. At first buzzed people would buy it as a lark, watching their friends sneeze like crazy, but the more enlightened ones would take to it. As I mentioned elswhere, I would like to have a “snuff sampling party” at a local bar. At this point the bar owners would think I was crazy if I suggested it and I don’t have the the means to advertise it properly. Perhaps a sponsorship deal…

I can remember a time when pubs here in the UK often used to have snuff for sale behind the bar. That’s quite a lot of years ago though. Maybe it will happen again.

My local still sells snuff behind the bar Tony. This is an ex mining area and a lot of folks still take snuff. Stefan

Good to hear, Stefan. They seem to have stopped doing so in Hull now. More’s the pity.

I think alot of people don’t bother with snuff because cigarettes exist, are readily available and give you a bigger nicotine hit faster. They don’t see the need to try snuff…I even had a smoker once say they thought sniffing tobacco up your nose was ‘disgusting’ I responded that I thought inhaling toxic smoke into their lungs then breathing it all over people who don’t smoke was pretty disgusting…they couldn’t really respond to that! LOL If smoking was banned tommorow every single one of them would be using snuff I promise you! LOL Thinking about it I would go as far as to say I have never had a positive response to snuff. Once people find out that you sniff it up your nose they immediately look at me in horror and disgust. If snuff was taken orally they probably wouldn’t blink. Two days ago a work colleague saw me taking some snuff. He asked what I was doing so I told him. I had with me some Fribourg & Treyer ‘Old Paris’ he asked to smell it and recoiled in horror exclaiming the smell was ‘horrible’ about 4-5 people ended up sniffing it and they all complained that it smelt vile…has anyone here ever felt that they are the only sane person left in the world? Why do human beings always seem to be overly hostile or wary around things they aren’t familiar with? Everyone on the planet seems to suffer from mass paranoia! LOL

yep, my various tins are regular feature at my local. can’t say anyone has been out and started collecting wildly, but there is always a clamour for it when i get tin out. much cheaper than giving cigs away! also, more ladies take a pinch, including 2 non smokers. faves for them are fruit and menthol varieties especially poschl.

Overall I get the impression that people tend to be more receptive to snuff in Europe than in North America, though I’m not sure why that should be the case. Certainly nobody bats an eyelid when I take a pinch, where ever I am. I think the only time I see a raised eyebrow is when Snuff Head and I cover a table at the pub with assorted tins and boxes, but that’s down to the sheer quantity!

Yeah, people are sheep in general…what a depressing fact! Old Paris is a wonderful smelling snuff - still made with a receipe hundreds of years old. I will admit that its not the best snuff to get started with. I hate to say it as it sounds a tad snobby but it would be like expecting some ignorant pleb who buys nothing but ‘tescos own’ brand £2.99 wine all week to appreciate fine vintage wine…it’s not going to happen. Perhaps I should have started with Gawith Cola…

I took this girl out once that told me she did not drink any wine that did not have a screw-off top. At that moment I knew she was not for me. This was confirmed when I went back to her place, a “handyman special” on the wrong side of the tracks, I sat on the couch and the legs went through the floor. The point is go with the gut and just avoid those people that are just plebs as Lazarus put it. I think we all can spot them.

I find it fairly hilarious that I live in a state where tobacco is the king crop (well, excluding the “other” tobacco, if you know what I mean…), and that the times when I pull out a form of tobacco that isn’t either cigarettes or American moist snuff, people start asking questions about what it is. Though some folks are stand-off-ish about some of them at first, a few others usually end up trying some. Wondering what people will think of nasal snuff… I know a couple others that are actually interested in it, though.

Maybe people in Canada are more open to new things, we Brits tend to like our habit and routine, we don’t like new or unusual things.

Lol. Actually, Lazarus, the screen name is a bit of chicanery… I’m in KY, USA, not Canada (not very close to Canada, either ). And believe me. If there’s a place where people prefer their habit and routine, eastern Kentucky is it, or one of them. You should hear all the people complaining about the smoking bans and otherwise that are affecting our more major cities here. We the people have had little say in the matter (city councils, etc. making the decision without any real consent. Gotta love Democracy… -_-; ) and the state (commonwealth, whatever) gov’t is trying to get people who have traditionally grown tobacco to grow something else. This, obviously, has made some people very unhappy. 'Course then there’s our slightly more illicit true #1 cash crop… o:-) If there’s anyone from Amsterdam, they might be familiar with that one, lol.

Reminds me of Lynchburg Tennessee where Jack Daniels is made. It is made in a dry county which means no alcoholic beverages are allowed to be sold there in that county.

That Jack Daniels story is so crazy I didn’t believe it when someone first told me!

Interesting how people are the same everywhere! Here in Denmark especially the cigarette smokers will offer very long explanations as to why snuff is extremely dangerous and will make your nose fall off within a day or two *lol* It’s fantastic how they manage to ignore the 10.000 smokers dying in Danish hospitals from lung cancer annually. In my favorite German bierstube I had a couple of guys trying a pinch - they sneezed! (big surprise:) but were very curious about snuff. At work, I had a young female colleague try a pinch of SP. She DIDN’T sneeze!! And she said “my what a pleasant scent!” Unfortunately she was fired soon after (the best always go) and so I didn’t get the chance to fully convert her, she was a cigarette smoker. My other smoking colleagues think I’m totally insane eeww to put tobacco up your nose?!?! Eeeww is the usual comment! However, burning chemically prepared leaves in paper wraps, and inhaling the smoke - is not “eeww”. I can smoke an occasional small cigar from time to time, but smoking will never be the same again. Thank God!

I’ve been trying to convert some smokers at work, but no success. Whenever I go for a pinch everyone around me looks at me like I’m crazy. I’ve tried to explain the health benefits of switching from smoking to snuff, but they won’t hear it. I guess they’re just set in their ways, and won’t change. Either that or they associate snuff with a different powder that is used nasally and is slightly less than legal. We’ll see who’s crazy when they’ve got lung cancer and I’ve got a nose full of Medicated No. 99.

Sadly, here in South Florida, the “other” nasal product is MUCH easier get than snuff.

Instead of health reasons I suggest pleasure reasons. If you say it’s healthier in peoples minds that equates to something like broccli versus a steak. The steak tastes better but isn’t as healthy as the broccli. Tell them it’s a lot more fun the smoking then after they try it more that would be the time to drop the health news on them.

Miamimark - haha definitely the same in Arhus! Bob - what’s wrong with a pinch of High Toast Broccoli ? :o)

Viking, I hate to sound dumb, but where’s Arhus?

Dahn ar rerd… (for those of you familiar with the Hull accent) Seriously, it’s in Denmark.

Cool, I dated a Danish girl when I worked on cruise ships. She was probably the best looking girl ever to be seen in public with me. She didn’t seem to care that I’m “average looking at best.” Let me know if that’s a cultural thing, i’ll be on the next plane… : )

Miamimark - hahaha yes the Danish girls love foreigners - especially Americans :o) I could write a thesis on Danish girls! And yes, especially Americans seem to find them extremely beautiful. As for me, I lean towards little brunettes of Balkan origin ;o) Arhus is the second largest city in Danmark, first mentioned in written sources in 862AD, but evidence shows that here was a city at least a thousand years before that. You may want to check out my city here: http://www.visitaarhus.com/international/en-gb/menu/turist/turist-maalgruppe-forside.htm

I guess the Balkan-girl thing is a Viking thing - only instead of throwing them into our longships, nowadays we just pay their plane ticket and they go by SAS instead of long boat :o))

Viking - If you like brunettes, you would love it down here in the Miami area. So many latin beauties! From my experience, you need either 6 pack abs or a large bank account to be considered “dateable.” At least the’re fun to look at.

Miamiamark, haha I probably would, but the abs and cash thing is really a turn-off I think. Oh my speaking of Latin girls, I remember only too well the Italian girls in Milano, where I went for a holiday last year :o) But of course I ended up talking to a Romanian girl - the Balkan thing again :o)) Though I THOUGHT she was Italian…